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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Eldridge Cleaver

Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m…

— Eldridge Cleaver

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

— Eldridge Cleaver

“I have tried to mislead you. I am not humble at all. I have no humility and I do not fear you…

— Eldridge Cleaver

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

— Eldridge Cleaver

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

— Eldridge Cleaver

We have dedicated our lives, our blood, to the freedom and liberation of our people, and nothing, no force can stop us…

— Eldridge Cleaver

Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat

— Eldridge Cleaver

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part…

— Eldridge Cleaver

“Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that…

— Eldridge Cleaver

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

— Eldridge Cleaver

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

— Eldridge Cleaver

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

— Eldridge Cleaver

“You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. " Eldridge Cleaver”

— Eldridge Cleaver