25 Noteworthy Quotes By Eldridge Cleaver
If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
Too much agreement kills a chat.
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
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.
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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.
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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.
You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem.
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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.
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
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.
I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.
You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. " Eldridge Cleaver
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Everybody changes, not just me.
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.
