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
moon men needs
In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.
revolution objects
The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.
war god-of-war
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
Everybody changes, not just me.
struggle people problem
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.
pain world ephemeral
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 men america
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 pigs communist
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
political world faults
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
either problem problems saying solution today
What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem