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. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share
“I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.” — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share
“If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.” — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share
“Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.” — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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.… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share
“I have tried to mislead you. I am not humble at all. I have no humility and I do not fear you in the… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share
