I don't think you have to teach people how to be human. I think you have to teach them how to stop being inhumane. Eldridge Cleaver More Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver More Quotes From Eldridge Cleaver Everybody changes, not just me. Eldridge Cleaver 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. Eldridge Cleaver landheromen 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. Eldridge Cleaver changemenamerica History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. Eldridge Cleaver african-americanhistoryblood 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. Eldridge Cleaver usasquadthinking 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. Eldridge Cleaver dancewritingbook The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde. Eldridge Cleaver womenstrongbeautiful In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. Eldridge Cleaver jailprisonwant I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die. Eldridge Cleaver communismtakenheart All the gods are dead except the god of war. Eldridge Cleaver anti-warwarpeace I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats. Eldridge Cleaver throatlineswhite Too much agreement kills a chat. Eldridge Cleaver communicationagreementfunny With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world. Eldridge Cleaver faultspoliticalworld The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution. Eldridge Cleaver objectsrevolution In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense. Eldridge Cleaver energymoonmen If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him Eldridge Cleaver dealsmiserypeople Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable. Eldridge Cleaver communistpigsamerica But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain. Eldridge Cleaver ephemeralpainworld Too much agreement kills the chat. Eldridge Cleaver Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. Eldridge Cleaver
