History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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
The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the ''American Way of Life'' is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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