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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. – 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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Change
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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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America
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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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I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. – Martin Scorsese

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History

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. – Susan Sontag

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History

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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History

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. – Francis Bacon

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History

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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. – Katherine Anne Porter

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Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East – I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone. – Mstislav Rostropovich

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I have never been hurt by what I have not said. – Calvin Coolidge

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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages. – Mahatma Gandhi

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