American - Activist | August 31, 1935 - May 1, 1998
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
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Too much agreement kills a chat.
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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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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