Quotes by Cleaver, Eldridge




Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 May 1, 1998) was a prominent black leader and activist, beginning as prominent member of the Black Panther Party..

"Too much agreement kills the chat."

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"All the gods are dead except the god of war."

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"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."

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

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

Cleaver, Eldridge on respectability
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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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"You are either part of the solution or part of the problem."

Cleaver, Eldridge on choice
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"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."

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