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

Eldridge Cleaver

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Eldridge Cleaver
Age: 62 †
Born: 1935
Born: August 31
Died: 1998
Died: May 1
Civil Rights Advocate
Politician
Writer
Wabbaseka
Arkansas
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
Prison
Wants
Become
Things
Withheld
Prisoner
Precisely
Denied
Jail

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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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.
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Too much agreement kills a chat.
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I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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.
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Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death... I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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We have dedicated our lives, our blood, to the freedom and liberation of our people, and nothing, no force can stop us from achieving our goal. If it is necessary to destroy the United States of America, then let us destroy it with a smile on our faces.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.
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The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.
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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very 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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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.
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I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves as so inadequate that they feel forced to wear a mask in order to continuously impress the other. I do not want to hold you, I want you to stay out of your own need for me.
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The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.
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