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Eldridge Cleaver: Citations en anglais

“If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.”

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“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”

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

“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.”

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Interview by Reason magazine (1986)
1980s

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

“I crossed the tracks and sought out White prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically […] Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the White man's law […] and that I was defiling his women […]”

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Soul on Fire (1978)
1970s

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

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Part I: "'The Christ' and His Teachings"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

“We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.”

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"Initial Reactions on the Assassination of Malcolm X"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

“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.”

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Part II: "Rallying Round the Flag"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

“We would go out and ambush cops, but if we got caught we would blame it on them and claim innocence. I did that personally in the case I was involved in.… We went after the cops that night, but when we got caught we said they came after us. We always did that. When you talk about the legacy of the '60s, that's one legacy. That's what I try to address, because it helped to distort the image of the police, but I've come to the point where I realize that our police department is necessary.”

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Interview by Reason magazine (1986), referring to the death of Bobby Hutton
1980s

“Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.”

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Soul on Fire (1978)
1970s

“I can understand J. Edgar Hoover, because he wasn't inaccurate.… He said that we were the main threat. We were trying to be the main threat. We were trying to be the vanguard organization. J. Edgar Hoover was an adversary, but he had good information. We were plugged into all of the revolutionary groups in America, plus those abroad. We were working hand-in-hand with communist parties here and around the world, and he knew that.”

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Interview by Reason magazine (1986)
1980s

“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.”

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1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

“The police department and the armed forces are the two arms of the power structure, the muscles of control and enforcement. They have deadly weapons with which to inflict pain on the human body. They know how to bring about hirrble deaths. They have clubs with which to beat the body and the head. They have bullets and guns with which to tear holes in the flesh, to smash bones, to disable and kill. They use force, to make you do what the deciders have decided you must do.”

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"Domestic Law and International Order"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

“The fight against the Negro revolution, as long as this was possible, was waged in the name of the flag and the Constitution. Now, in this new stage of the struggle, the opposition is again employing as weapons the very same tools with which they have once been defeated.”

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"Rallying Round the Flag"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

“Americans are becoming increasingly polarized right and left, with the great body of the people in the middle confused and, sometimes to mask their confusion, feigning indifference.”

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"Rallying Round the Flag"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

“Five years ago, even the most audacious visionary would not have dared predict the slashing do-or-de desperation and the sizzling up-tempo beat which has exploded into our politics, into our daily conversation, and into our nightmares and dreams.”

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"Rallying Round the Flag"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

“Malcolm X had a special meaning for black convicts. A former prisoner himself, he had risen from the lowest depths to great heights. For this reason he was a stmbol of hope, a model for thousands of black convicts who found themselves trapped in the vicious PPP cycle: prison-parole-prison.”

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"Initial Reactions on the Assassination of Malcolm X"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

“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.”

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

“I had come to believe that there is no God; if there is, men do not know anything about him. Therefore, all religions were phony - which made all preachers and priests, in our eyes, fakers, including the ones scurrying around the prison who, curiously, could put in a good word for you with the Almighty Creator of the universe but could not get anything down with the warden or parole board - they could usher you through the Pearly Gates after you were dead, but not through the prison gate while you were still alive and kicking.”

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

“I had gotten caught with a shopping bag full of Marijuana, a shopping bag full of love - I was in love with the weed and I did not for one minute think that anything was wrong with getting high. I had been getting high for four or five years and was convinced, with the zeal of a crusader, that marijuana was superior to lush - yet the rulers of the land seemed all to be lushes. I could not see how they were more justified in drinking than I was in blowing the gage. I was a grasshopper, and it was natural that I felt myself to be unjustly prosecuted.”

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

“Huey P. Newton is the baddest motherfucker ever to set foot inside of history. Huey has a very special meaning to black people, because for four hundred years black people have been wanting to do exactly what Huey Newton did, that is, to stand up in front of the most deadly tentacle of the white racist power structure, and to defy that deadly tentacle, and to tell that tentacle that he will not accept the aggression and the brutality, and that if he is moved against, he will retaliate in kind. Huey Newton is a classical revolutionary figure.”

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Post-Prison Writings (1969)
1960s

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