Eldridge Cleaver Short Quotes

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

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

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What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

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

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Rape was an insurrectionary act.... I wanted to send waves of consternation throughout the white race.

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The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

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

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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

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It's been said that today, you're part of the solution or you're part of the problem. There is no more middle ground.

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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 erupt.

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But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

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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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