61 Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

The opressor has no right to which the oppressed is bound to respect.

And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, sunlit place but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins.

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the ''American Way of Life'' is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.

You’re either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.

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

You either have to be part of the solution, or you’re going to be part of the problem.

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.

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