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"15 Eldridge Cleaver Quotes & Sayings

      American     /    
Born: 31 August 1935. Died: 1 May 1998 | Writer | Leader |

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

Solution Part Problem You
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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.

Against Am American American Dream
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Too much agreement kills a chat.

Agreement Chat Much Too
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Blood Could History Human
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.b

Books Could Court Ghetto
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Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Commands Due Given Itself
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Beings Hating Human Human Beings
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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.

America Change Could Former
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
Dead Except God Gods
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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.

Being How Human Inhuman
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

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

Communism Day Die Heart
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

America Black Body Brilliant
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Everybody changes, not just me.

Changes Everybody Just Me
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I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
Beyond Civil Civil Rights Creation
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Eldridge Cleaver Quotes & Sayings