Eldridge Cleaver: We will Build a New City

You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem.
― Eldridge Cleaver

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
― Eldridge Cleaver

And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.
― Eldridge Cleaver

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
― Eldridge Cleaver

Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green and peaceful, sunlit place---but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins. But put on your crown, my Queen, and we will build a New City on these ruins.
― Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice