Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver
Leroy Eldridge Cleaverwas an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. His 1968 book, Soul On Ice, is a collection of essays that, at the time of its publication, was praised by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant and revealing"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 August 1935
CityWabbaseka, AR
CountryUnited States of America
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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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He used to be a Panther. It was hard to believe.