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Eldridge Cleaver

"You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman."

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"You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman."

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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."

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"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."

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"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."

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"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."

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"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

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"We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel.We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced."

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"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."

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