Eldridge Cleaver Quotes

“Too much agreement kills a chat.”

“Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.”

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

“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.”

“You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.”

“All the gods are dead except the god of war.”

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

“Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.”

“Too much agreement kills a chat.”

“A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.”