Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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 against the American nightmare.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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.
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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 loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
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Too much agreement kills a chat.
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.
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