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, founding member of the Black Panther Party

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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. —Eldridge Cleaver, founding member of the Black Panther Party

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You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. —Eldridge Cleaver, founding member of the Black Panther Party

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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. —Eldridge Cleaver, founding member of the Black Panther Party

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one’s contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. —Angela Davis, American activist

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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. —Angela Davis, American activist

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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. —Guy Debord, French activist

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We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him. —Marian Wright Edelman, American activist

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I’ll admit that President Bush did appoint Condoleezza Rice. He appointed Powell, but that wasn’t enough. —Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

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So I’m in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else. —Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

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When I became mayor, I had to run as an independent because the Democrats wouldn’t allow us to run as a Democrat back in those days. —Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

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When Megdar was killed, I came back from Chicago and couldn’t go inside the airport in Jackson, Mississippi. —Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

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