Eldridge Cleaver Quotes

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

We are here to make another world.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

Social change comes through people.

My attitude was, they'd earned the right to do what they thought they had to do with their one square metre of Olympic dais, and I was glad they were doing it, and glad I was with them.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Only force would produce social change.

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

It is not leaders who make movements; it is movements that make leaders.

My presence is to instigate and incite the people for any change they want, and for not having a change that they don't wish to do.

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

If things aren't working for us, it is our duty to rise up.

'Rise Up' is very necessary. Point blank.