You’re either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem. — Eldridge Cleaver

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world. — Eldridge Cleaver

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution. — Eldridge Cleaver

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. — Eldridge Cleaver

I did not know that I had all these feelings inside me. They have never been aroused before. Now they cascade down upon my head and threaten to beat me down to the ground, into the dust. — Eldridge Cleaver

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die. — Eldridge Cleaver

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable. — Eldridge Cleaver

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde. — Eldridge Cleaver

I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights. — Eldridge Cleaver

If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem. — 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. — Eldridge Cleaver

They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do. — Eldridge Cleaver

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. — Eldridge Cleaver

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. — Eldridge Cleaver

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. — 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. — Eldridge Cleaver

Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat — Eldridge Cleaver

Everybody changes, not just me. — Eldridge Cleaver

You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. — Eldridge Cleaver

Too much agreement kills the chat. — 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. — Eldridge Cleaver