Civil rights Quote by Alphonso Jackson

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The whole class system has oppressed so many people and given them such lack of opportunity. They are fed such strong narratives that this…

— Zoya Akhtar

Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law.…

— Anonymous

“Government can only reign over a classes-divided society.”

— Toba Beta

[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting…

— Harry Shearer

“Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They pay lip…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Upward mobility across classes peaked in the U.S. in the late 19th century. Most of the gains of the 20th century were achieved en…

— Ben Fountain

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

— Henry Louis Gates

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“What is key to America's understanding of class is the persistent belief - despite all evidence to the contrary - that anyone, with the…

— Michelle Alexander

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

— Joseph Stalin

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

— James Meredith