61 Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

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

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness.

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.

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

I did not know that I had all these feelings inside me. They have never been aroused before. Now they cascade down upon my head and threaten to beat me down to the ground, into the dust.

We knew that in the end what they were clashing over was us, what to do with the blacks, and whether or not to start treating us as human beings.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.