Eldridge Cleaver

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

"If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem."

- Eldridge Cleaver, born 31 August 1935

“And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.”