Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERRespect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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We knew that in the end what they were clashing over was us, what to do with the blacks, and whether or not to start treating us as human beings.
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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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