The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They… — 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 Image
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 Image
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
“I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.” — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
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 the system that is oppressing him. Many whites flatter themselves with the idea that the Negro male's lust and desire for the white dream girl is purely an esthetic attraction, but nothing could be further from… — 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 Image
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
“If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.” — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
“Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.” — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
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 Image
