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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.

— Eldridge Cleaver Soul on Ice (1968)

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

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"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.

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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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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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