Eldridge Cleaver Quotes

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

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

They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.

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

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

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.

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

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

Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

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

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

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

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.

Everybody changes, not just me.

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

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

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

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Too much agreement kills a chat.

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.

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

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.