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I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revo

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 nightmare. – Eldridge Cleaver

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The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet. – Eldridge Cleaver

Category:
Heroes/Heroism
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Eldridge Cleaver
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The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very 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

Category:
Dance, Dancing
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Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. – Eric Nicol

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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. – W. H. Auden

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