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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 t...
By Eldridge Cleaver
The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.
By Eldridge Cleaver
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
By Eldridge Cleaver
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
By Eldridge Cleaver
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.
By Eldridge Cleaver
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.
By Eldridge Cleaver
What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
By Eldridge Cleaver
I don't think you have to teach people how to be human. I think you have to teach them how to stop being inhumane.
By Eldridge Cleaver