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

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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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

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America
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Other Quotes from
History
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Historian. A broad — gauge gossip. – Ambrose Bierce

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History

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. – Jean Genet

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History

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history. – Ralph Nader

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History

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. – Ted Koppel

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History

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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud – 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong? – Jane Smiley

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Home

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, Hear me clap, hear the music. I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear. – Danica McKellar

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Music

Only in your imagination can you revise. – Fay Wray

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Imagination

Optimist: “Okay, we all realize that the situation is temporarily hopeless.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Optimism