Quotes from Eldridge Cleaver

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

Too much agreement kills a chat.

I also came to see that the price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

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.

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

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.

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