Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Anti War

Peace

War

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.

Squad

Thinking

Usa

And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.

Greatness

Kindness

Love

But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

Ephemeral

Pain

World

Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat

Agreement

Life And Love

Successful

Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death… I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.

Men

Pain

White

Everybody changes, not just me.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

African American

Blood

History

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.

Dream

Struggle

Usa

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

Lines

Throat

White

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African American

Agreement

America

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Beautiful

Black History

Blood

Book

Champion

Change

Communication

Communism

Communist

Creation

Cutting

Dance

Deals

Decided

Dream

Earth

Enemy

Energy

Ephemeral

Fake

Faults

Force

Forgiveness

Funny

Gains

Girl

Given

Gone

Greatness

Hate

Heart

Hero

History

Idaho

Inspirational

Jail

Justice

Kindness

Land

Life

Life And Love

Lines

Loss

Love

Manhood

Men

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Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

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.

But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat

Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death… I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.

Everybody changes, not just me.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

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.

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

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