Eldridge Cleaver: Likeness

Eldridge Cleaver was American activist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
Eldridge Cleaver: 42   quotes 0   likes

“They were murderers and they still are, but policemen are like dogs on a leash.… The police function under political direction. They go after whoever they are sent after, and that's where the problem comes in.… Black people were moving out of their traditional position in America. Nobody knew what to do about it. The white politicians were confused, the blacks were confused.… the police were told to go out, stop those civil-rights marches … and they went out and did that. When you talk to police now who participated in that, you find out that they were in the same position we were in — just trying to find the right formula.”

Eldridge Cleaver

Interview by Reason magazine (1986)
1980s

People , Dogs , Problem

“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

Part II: "The White Race and Its Heroes"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

Hope , Change

“It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like passengers in a supersonic jet liner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passel of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot’s seat.”

Eldridge Cleaver

1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

World , Feeling , Reality , Fight

“In economics, because everybody seemed to find it necessary to attack and condemn Karl Marx in their writings, I sought out his book, and although he kept me with a headache, I took him my authority. I was not prepared to understand him, but I was able to see in him a thoroughgoing critique of and condemnation of capitalism. It was like taking medicine for me to find that, indeed, American capitalism deserved all th hatred and contempt that I felt for it in my heart.”

Eldridge Cleaver

"On Becoming"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

Books , Heart , Understanding