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The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant

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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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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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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I am convinced that a light supper, a good nights sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward. – Lord Chesterfield

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You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. – C. D. Andrews

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True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. – Lawrence Durrell

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