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

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Source : ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

Eldridge Cleaver

#Inspirational Quotes #Respect Quotes #Given Quotes

“Itâ€™s no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. Itâ€™s a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesnâ€™t know their purpose, they get lost.”
“My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions”
“Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.”

Source : "Obama, Romney Pull Campaign Ads On Sept. 11". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 11, 2012.
“What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.”
“With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during their courtship. All their instincts of drama come out freshly with their wives. The artist is he in whom this emotionality normally absorbed by sex is so strong that it claims a newer and more exclusive field of deployment. Its first creation is the Artist himself, a new sort of person; the creative man.”
“What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.”
“There are still men who come up to me today and say, 'You were really hot in that film!' I was 14, for God's sake!”

Source : FHM interview, October 2000.

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