Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER CommandRespect
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER BloodColorHistoryHumanRed
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER CivilCreationHumanRights
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER CommunityDieHeartOath
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER BrillanceChampionCountryDemandDullMindPowerful
The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER OnjectRevolutionWisdom
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER HateHumanHuman BeingLoveOneselfPrice
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. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER BlackBlack Lives MatterClashHumanHuman BeingMatter
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER CruelHumanPeopleTeaching
