Eldridge Cleaver Quotes


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.


Citations

Cleaver, Eldridge. Soul on Ice. McGraw-Hill, 1968.

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Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver
  • Born: August 31, 1935
  • Died: May 1, 1998
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer, Political Activist

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party.