"Therefore, all religions were phony - which made all preachers and priests, in our eyes, fakers, including the ones scurrying around the prison who, curiously, could put in a good word for you with the Almighty Creator of the universe, but could not get anything down with the warden or parole board - they could usher you through the Pearly Gates after you were dead, but not through the prison gate while you were still alive and kicking."
— Eldridge Cleaver, 1965 Chapter 1, Page 5

"I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats."
— Eldridge Cleaver, 1965 Chapter 1, Page 14

"Had I been fool enough to go to the Protestant chapel, one black face in a sea of white, and with guerrilla warfare going on between us, I might have ended up a Christian martyr - St. Eldridge...