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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

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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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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. – Vladimir Lenin

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And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. – Julien Benda

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History

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and weve been in wars ever since. Were not a pacific people. – James Lee Burke

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History

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley

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