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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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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

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"All the gods are dead except the god of war."
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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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"History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood."
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"I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare."
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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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"You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem."
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"Too much agreement kills a chat."
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"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."
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"Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."
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