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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

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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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Eldridge Cleaver
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. – Eldridge Cleaver

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Prison
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Eldridge Cleaver
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America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco. – Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

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The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values. – William Ralph

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Not merely a nation but a nation of nations. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. – Barbara Jordan

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