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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
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Wabbaseka
Arkansas
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
Prisoner
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Jail
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Withheld
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
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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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Too much agreement kills a chat.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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.
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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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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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is Love thine enemy
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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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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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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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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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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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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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