Eldridge Cleaver

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.