Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

“The opressor has no right to which the oppressed is bound to respect.”

“if god himself wills such misery on people whom i love, then i say i will deal with him”

“You dont have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.”

“Youre either part of the solution or part of the problem.”

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

“What were saying today is that youre either part of the solution or youre part of the problem”

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

“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.”

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

“Too much agreement kills a chat.”

Too much agreement kills a chat.

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 its all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness thats overrun with ruins. But put on your crown, my Queen, and we will build a New City on these ruins.

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

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Youre either part of the solution or youre part of the problem.

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.

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