Famous Quotes / Eldridge Cleaver
18 Quotations by Eldridge Cleaver
- 1. All the gods are dead except the god of war.
- 2. Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any sp ...
- 3. History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
- 4. I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a ...
- 5. If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can ...
- 6. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
- 7. In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most ...
- 8. Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
- 9. The "paper tiger" hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying ...
- 10. The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
- 11. The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist ...
- 12. The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the "American Way of Life" is a fossil ...
- 13. There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submis ...
- 14. Too much agreement kills the chat.
- 15. What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
- 16. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
- 17. You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
- 18. You're either part of the problem or part of the solution.