Eldridge Cleaver's Quotes

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

Eldridge Cleaver

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

Eldridge Cleaver

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

Eldridge Cleaver

Too much agreement kills a chat.

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