Eldridge Cleaver Quotes

I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

[Rape] is nothing more or less than a conscious process on intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that’s all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws and their codes.

Feminized wimps need to be removed from our government, from our media, from our educational institutions, and replaced by real white men.... That'll be a tough job.... I don't really care how the job is done—whether the wimps all get machine-gunned and bulldozed into giant lime pits or whether their thinking is eventually straightened out by a program of prolonged trauma and privation

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

We will make your women bear our children who will become your masters.

One who violates a woman and then covers her, gains grace.

Slutwalk

Champion of White Men's Rule and Woman's Virtue

Slavery’s frontier was a white man’s sexual playground.

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.

When Trump was elected, it gave white men - particularly white men in power - full, unfettered permission to say or do whatever they want without consequence.

The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences. It's about pointing to empire and control and domination and misogyny and all those social ills in the work, but it's not necessarily taking a position. Oftentimes, it's actually embodying it.

Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head.

The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable.

I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.'