#ric

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#change #could #former #hope #i

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#bestial #black #body #brilliant #champions

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump. ↗

— Murray Walker

#cut #stump #tension #you

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#am #american #american dream #citizen #dream

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#america #aware #become #come #country

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#best #between #classes #country #dependence

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#different #different players #experience #experiencing #got

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#blue #blue collar #collar #early #felt

According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September. ↗

— Kenneth H. Cooper

#after #american #dropping #exercised #gallup

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#bounded #certainty #earth #enclosed #poles