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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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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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

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Dance, Dancing
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. – Desmond Tutu

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History

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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History

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. – Thomas Carlyle

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History

Its in the history books, the Holocaust. Its just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. – Gene Simmons

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History

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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. – Desmond Tutu

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We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage. – Zoe Lister-Jones

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So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush. – Bonnie Tyler

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People come into your life and people leave it… you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you. – Orlando Bloom

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