Quotes from Eldridge Cleaver

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Rape was an insurrectionary act…. I wanted to send waves of consternation throughout the white race.

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.

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

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

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.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

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.

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.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. Eldridge Cleaver

When you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem.

If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.

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

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.

You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.