Logo
Quote by Eldridge Cleaver
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven re

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. – Eldridge Cleaver

Other quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

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

Category:
Prison
Author
Eldridge Cleaver
Read Quote

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
Author
Eldridge Cleaver
Read Quote

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. – Eldridge Cleaver

Category:
America
Author
Eldridge Cleaver
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
History
category

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

Category:
History

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. – Malcolm Forbes

Category:
History

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri

Category:
History

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. – Arthur Erickson

Category:
History

Random Quotes

While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our config.sys settings. – Dave Barry

Category:
Internet

Im not a religious person, and Im not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples. – Ian MacKaye

Category:
Religion

The reason we wouldnt make a seven-inch tablet isnt because we dont want to hit a price point, its because we dont think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen. – Steve Jobs

Category:
great

I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you dont exercise and do the other two, I still dont think its going to help you that much. – Mike Ditka

Category:
Health