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Eldridge Cleaver Quotes

1935–1998 United States

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was an author, American civil rights leader, and dominant member of the Black Panther Party.

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Also known as: Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Soul on Ice (1968)

"The people" are a rubber stamp for the crafty and sly.

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Soul on Ice (1968)

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.

Soul on Ice (1968)

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.

Soul on Ice (1968)

A convict's paranoia is as thick as the prison wall - and just as necessary.

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I turned away from America with horror, disgust and outrage.

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The massive upsurge of the Negro people and the support and sympathy aroused in the white community beat the dinosaur back from their first line of defense.

Soul on Ice (1968)

Americans are becoming increasingly polarized right and left, with the great body of the people in the middle confused and, sometimes to mask their confusion, feigning indifference.

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We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

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Rape was an insurrectionary act.

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The fight against the Negro revolution, as long as this was possible, was waged in the name of the flag and the Constitution. Now, in this new stage of the struggle, the opposition is again employing as weapons the very same tools with which they have once been defeated.

Soul on Ice (1968)

Five years ago, even the most audacious visionary would not have dared predict the slashing do-or-die desperation and the sizzling up-tempo beat which has exploded into our politics, into our daily conversation, and into our nightmares and dreams.

Soul on Ice (1968)

The power structures cannot publicly recognize that the Vietnamese conflict is a civil war, because such an acknowledgement would reveal us as an aggressor intervening on a favored side in a civil conflict. In fact, America's intervention has transformed a civil war into a war of national liberation.

Soul on Ice (1968)

The black man's interest lies in seeing a free and independent Vietnam, a strong Vietnam which is not the puppet of international white supremacy. If the nations of Asia, Latin America, and Africa are strong and free, the black man in America will be safe and secure and free to live in dignity and self-respect.

Soul on Ice (1968)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eldridge Cleaver (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.