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Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party.

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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.

Change, Easy, Ephemeral, Pain, Relationship, World

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

Enemy, History, Love, Revolutionary, Statements

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.

Calamity, Greatness, Injustice, Loss, Self, Submission

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Due, Given, Inspirational, Respect, Withheld

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

Agreement, Kills, Life And Love, Maniac, Successful

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

African American, Blood, History, Red, Scarlet, Title

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

Beings, Forgiveness, Hate, Hating, Love, Price

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

American, Faults, Freest, Political, System, World

And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.

Beauty, Greatness, Kindness, Love, Savagery, Tiny

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

Creation, Gone, Rights

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.

America, Change, Man, Men, Whites, Young

The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Against, Freedom, People, Problem, Stand, Struggle

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.

Dream, Nightmare, Revolutionary, Struggle, Usa

I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves as so inadequate that they feel forced to wear a mask in order to continuously impress the other. I do not want to "hold" you, I want you to "stay" out of your own need for me.

Fake, Mask, Order, People, Tenderest, Wear

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

Attempts, Earth, Gain, Gains, Manhood

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

Deals, Misery, People, Wills

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

Communism, Heart, Oath, Oppose, Taken

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

Apprehended, Lines, Lived, Throat, Throats, White

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

Inhuman, Justice, People, Stop, Teacher

The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white. . . blacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.

America, Blood, Coin, Conscience, Land, White

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