Eldridge Cleaver

“Too much agreement kills a chat.”

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”

“The police are the armed guardians of the social order. The army are the armed guardians of the national order. Social order and national order are hogwash.”

“We were equals, in the sense that we were all in the same sinking boat.”

“All the gods are dead except the god of war.”

“If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.”

“You don't have to teach people to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.”

“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”

“There is no more abstract art in the world than a blueprint.”

“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.”

“A slave who dies of natural causes will not balance two dead flies on the scales of eternity.”

“The quest for justice that I have been seeking for many years seems to be embodied in the country that I have despised for many years.”

“We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.”