Too much agreement kills a chat.
From Eldridge Cleaver
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
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.
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.
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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.
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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.
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