Eldridge Cleaver

Activist

1935-08-31 – 1998-05-01

Eldridge Cleaver was an American writer and political activist who became a prominent leader in the Black Panther Party. His memoir Soul on Ice became a major work of 1960s Black political writing.

Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the 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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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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Americans think of themselves 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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Too much agreement kills a chat.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is Love thine enemy
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of General Motors.
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You're either part of the problem or part of the solution.
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The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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