Eldridge Cleaver Quotes

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• You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
• The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
• There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent…
• What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
• I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle…
• 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,…
• Too much agreement kills a chat.
• Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
• History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
• I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
• In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
• You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
• All the gods are dead except the god of war.
• 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 may…
• Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat
• 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…
• If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him
• Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
• The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I…
• The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is whiteblacks knew that white blood is…

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