Everybody changes, not just me.

- 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 nightmar…

- Eldridge Cleaver

Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forba…

- Eldridge Cleaver

And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a …

- Eldridge Cleaver

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

- Eldridge Cleaver

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

- Eldridge Cleaver

The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white blood i…

- Eldridge Cleaver

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

- Eldridge Cleaver

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

- Eldridge Cleaver