All the gods are dead except the god of war.
Eldridge Cleaver
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.
Eldridge Cleaver
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Eldridge Cleaver
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.
Eldridge Cleaver
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.
Eldridge Cleaver
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Eldridge Cleaver
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Eldridge Cleaver
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Eldridge Cleaver
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 am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.
Eldridge Cleaver
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver
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.
Eldridge Cleaver
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.
Eldridge Cleaver
Too much agreement kills a chat.
Eldridge Cleaver
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Eldridge Cleaver
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
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Type:
Activist
Date of Birth:
1935-08-31
Year of Death:
1998
Nationality:
American |
