Top 84 Quotes About Eldridge
#1. We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver.
Huey Newton
#2. Write him down, if he must write him down as something, as a disbeliever; he disbelieved in the Pope, in the Kremlin, in the Vietcong, in the American eagle, in astrology, Arthur Schlesinger, Eldridge Cleaver, Senator Eastland, and Eastman Kodak. Nor did he believe overmuch in his disbelief. He
John Updike
#3. You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)
Gordon Parks
#4. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver
#5. I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself.
Huey Newton
#6. Adoptive parents often say about adoption day: "It was the happiest day of our lives!" While most of us are happy to be adopted, our own hearts tell us that adoption day was the most painful day of our lives, for the person with whom we shared deep intimacy suddenly disappeared from our world.
Sherrie Eldridge
#7. Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
Eldridge Cleaver
#8. We have dedicated our lives, our blood, to the freedom and liberation of our people, and nothing, no force can stop us from achieving our goal. If it is necessary to destroy the United States of America, then let us destroy it with a smile on our faces.
Eldridge Cleaver
#9. There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Eldridge Cleaver
#10. I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views "should" be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences.
Sherrie Eldridge
#11. Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.
Paul Eldridge
#12. I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.
Eldridge Cleaver
#13. God? Where was he? She was quite certain he abandoned her.
Matthew Eldridge
#14. If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Paul Eldridge
#15. A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.
Paul Eldridge
#16. For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And many continue to be martyrs to causes which have ceased to exist, their crowns rusting upon their heads as tin wreaths rust upon forgotten tombs.
Paul Eldridge
#17. To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.
Paul Eldridge
#18. We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.
Paul Eldridge
#19. You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Eldridge Cleaver
#20. The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is whiteblacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.
Eldridge Cleaver
#21. Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Paul Eldridge
#22. Listen to your hearts, parents! You are the expert when it comes to knowing your child. I love the Scripture that says we are to let the peace of God rule in our hearts ... In other words, peace in your heart is to be like an umpire calling the shots. When in doubt
DON'T!
Sherrie Eldridge
#23. Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
Paul Eldridge
#24. How you choose to respond to each moment of the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.
Sherrie Eldridge
#25. Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.
William Eldridge Odom
#26. If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
Eldridge Cleaver
#27. As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.
William Eldridge Odom
#29. It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.
Paul Eldridge
#31. What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
#32. With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
Eldridge Cleaver
#33. To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.
Paul Eldridge
#34. History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
Paul Eldridge
#35. I have this deep need to bond with real blood relatives, but I feel like I'm not really a part of either of my families.
Sherrie Eldridge
#36. Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Eldridge Cleaver
#37. Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
Paul Eldridge
#38. The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
#39. Every time I embrace a black woman I'm embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I'm hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death ... . I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.
Eldridge Cleaver
#41. The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the 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
#42. If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him
Eldridge Cleaver
#43. In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.
William Eldridge Odom
#45. In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Eldridge Cleaver
#46. I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes ... man I dug.
Roy Eldridge
#47. Read Talking With Young Children About Adoption by Susan Fisher, M.D., and Mary Watkins, Ph.D. (Yale University Press, 1995).
Sherrie Eldridge
#48. Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge
#50. The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver
#51. I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.
Roy Eldridge
#53. Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.
Paul Eldridge
#54. I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
Eldridge Cleaver
#55. But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.
Eldridge Cleaver
#56. 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
#57. You know, there was a part of me that was so defiant, and a part of me that was so ashamed, and I really couldn't say which was which at any given point in time.
Courtney Eldridge
#58. Werewolves did not consider wolves one of their own; in fact, wolves were inferior. They were hunters, strong and ravenous like them, but they weren't as big or as intelligent.
Janiera Eldridge
#59. Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
Sherrie Eldridge
#60. You realize you've never walked in another person's shoes. Never have. Never will. The same is true in adoption. There are three sets of adoption shoes sitting at the end of the boardwalk. The adoptees ... the birth parents' ... and the adoptive parents'. Each is unique and each has a story to tell.
Sherrie Eldridge
#61. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge
#62. History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Eldridge Cleaver
#64. It is a celebration of the fact that we were adopted for a purpose and that adoption is an experience that has the potential of teaching us some of life's richest and deepest lessons.
Sherrie Eldridge
#65. Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat
Eldridge Cleaver
#66. Talent only gives an imperfect image--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of Genius remain unruffled.
Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott
#67. We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
Paul Eldridge
#68. You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
#69. What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
Eldridge Cleaver
#70. 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
#71. We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.
Paul Eldridge
#72. Because adoption is a lifelong journey, we have a future filled with the potential to learn invaluable lessons. But many of us haven't been taught that we have a choice in every situation in life.
Sherrie Eldridge
#73. I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story.
Roy Eldridge
#74. With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
Paul Eldridge
#75. We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
Eldridge Cleaver
#76. A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.
Paul Eldridge
#77. They look at adoption through rose-colored glasses, trying to make it a win/win situation for unplanned pregnancies and infertility, never giving a thought about what effect adoption has on the child.
Sherrie Eldridge
#78. Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
Paul Eldridge
#79. If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
#80. It can undermine the most sincere parental commitment and force adoptees to suffer in private, choosing either rebellion or conformity as a mode of relating.
Sherrie Eldridge
#81. I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.
Eldridge Cleaver
#82. 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
#83. I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
Eldridge Cleaver
#84. There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
Paul Eldridge
