61 Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

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

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

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.

What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem