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

~Eldridge Cleaver

Topics: Either Part Problem Solution 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.

~Eldridge Cleaver

Topics: Against Am American American Dream Citizen Dream Feel Nightmare Part Revolutionary Struggle Which I Am I Feel

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Too much agreement kills a chat.

~Eldridge Cleaver

Topics: Agreement Chat Much Too Too Much

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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.

~Eldridge Cleaver

Topics: America Change Could Former Hope Like Malcolm Malcolm X Man Muslims Myself Other Racism Then Whites Young

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

~Eldridge Cleaver

Topics: Beings Hating Human Human Beings Less Loving Oneself Other Price

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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.

~Eldridge Cleaver

Topics: Being How Human Inhuman People Stop Teach Them You

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

~Eldridge Cleaver

Topics: Communism Day Die Heart Oath Oppose Taken Until

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Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

~Eldridge Cleaver

Topics: Commands Due Given Itself Neither Nor Respect Withheld

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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.

~Eldridge Cleaver

Topics: Beneath Calamity Defended Equals Follows Great Great Nation Greatness Honor Injustice Invite Loss Nation National People Safety Self-Respect Submission Which Wrong

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

~Eldridge Cleaver

Topics: America Black Body Brilliant Champions Demands Dull Her Mind Powerful

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: August 31st, 1935

Died: May 1st, 1998

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