Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver
Leroy Eldridge Cleaverwas an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. His 1968 book, Soul On Ice, is a collection of essays that, at the time of its publication, was praised by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant and revealing"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 August 1935
CityWabbaseka, AR
CountryUnited States of America
people misery deals
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him
order people fake
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.
dance book writing
The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very 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.
enemy revolutionary statements
The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy
beautiful strong women
The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
rights gone creation
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
blood years land
The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is whiteblacks 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.
love kindness greatness
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.
american-activist commands given itself neither nor respect withheld
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
hard
He used to be a Panther. It was hard to believe.
american-activist either solution
You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.
inspirational respect given
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
justice people teach
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
dream struggle usa
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.