Jet Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

— Eldridge Cleaver

In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers,…

— Eldridge Cleaver

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him

— Eldridge Cleaver

“I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.”

— Eldridge Cleaver

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

— Eldridge Cleaver

I know that the black man's sick attitude toward the white woman is a revolutionary sickness: it keeps him perpetually out of harmony with…

— Eldridge Cleaver

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict…

— Eldridge Cleaver

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

— Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

— Eldridge Cleaver

“If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.”

— Eldridge Cleaver

“Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.”

— Eldridge Cleaver

The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white…

— Eldridge Cleaver