"Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."
-Eldridge Cleaver
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"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
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
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