Eldridge Cleaver Quotes

All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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Dead Except God War
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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Command Respect
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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Blood Color History Human Red
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Beyond Civil Creation Human Rights
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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Community Die Heart Oath
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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Brillance Champion Country Demand Dull Mind Powerful
The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
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Onject Revolution Wisdom
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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Hate Human Being Love Oneself Price
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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Black Lives Matter Clash Human Being
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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Cruel Human People Teaching
We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
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Attempt Earth Gain Level Manhood
The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
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Beautiful Black Myth Strong Women
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Beyond Civil Creation Human Rights
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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Cruel Human People Teaching
Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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Each Other Fake Feeling Genuine Object Tender
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Deny Jail Prison
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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Citizen Country Dreams Nightmare Revolution Struggle
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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Change Country Hope Racism
They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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Decision Force War
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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Account Community Country Pig Power
The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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Enemy History Love Revolutionn Statement
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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Country Democracy Fault Politics System World
Too much agreement kills chat.
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Agreement Chat Conservation Kill One Liner
Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom.
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Arms Black Embrace Freedom Racism Slave White Women
Everybody changes, not just me.
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Change One Liner Reality
If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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Friendship Involvement Problem Relationship Solution
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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Deal God Himself Love Misery People

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