Adventure Quote by Angela Davis

Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation…

— Angela Davis

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty…

— Henry Louis Gates

I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle…

— Angela Davis

“The “rising tide” theory rested on a notion of separate but equal class ladders. And so there was a class of black poor and…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely…

— Mao Zedong

We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that…

— Christopher Lasch

There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that…

— Betty Friedan

It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at helping people…

— Barack Obama

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass,…

— Henry Louis Gates

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

— H. Rap Brown

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people…

— Angela Davis

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

— Constance Baker Motley