Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

About Eldridge Cleaver:

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver is a collection of essays, praised by The New York Times Book Review at the time of its publication as "brilliant and revealing".
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Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green and peaceful, sunlit place---but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with...

Eldridge Cleaver

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

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

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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 ...

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Too much agreement kills a chat.

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

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

Eldridge Cleaver

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

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

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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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Everybody changes, not just me.

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

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

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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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Author Bio

  • NameEldridge Cleaver
  • DescriptionAmerican activist
  • BornAugust 31, 1935
  • DiedMay 1, 1998
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor