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Eldridge Cleaver

"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."

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"American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it."

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"I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once."

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"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."

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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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