Eldridge Cleaver Quotes & Sayings
16 most famous Eldridge Cleaver quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American activist who passed away on 1 May, 1998.
“Too much agreement kills a chat.”
“You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.”
“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.”
“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”
“You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.”
“In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.”
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