if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem
- if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem
Cleaver’s formulation (see 1968) is the one that has passed into currency, but the idea is found earlier: 1943 Nea Bulletin Dec. 621 (heading) Are we part of the problem or of the answer?
1968 E. CLEAVER Speech in R. Scheer, Eldridge Cleaver (1969) 32 What we’re saying today is that you’re either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.
1975 M. BRADBURY History Man v. ‘If you’re not the solution,’ says Peter Madden, ‘you’re part of the problem.’ ‘It would be terribly arrogant of me to believe I was the solution to anything.’
1977 C. MCFADDEN Serial xxvi. Listen, don’t you realize if you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem.
2001 New Scientist 24 Nov. 112 MTV used to broadcast environmental messages featuring the punchline ‘if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem’. Indeed.
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