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. Eldridge Cleaver Read Quote
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. Eldridge Cleaver Read Quote
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. Eldridge Cleaver Read Quote
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. Eldridge Cleaver Read Quote
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. Eldridge Cleaver Read Quote
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die. Eldridge Cleaver Read Quote
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind. Eldridge Cleaver Read Quote
