Accepted Quote by Ella Baker

And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values…

— Malcolm X

“the term “middle class” concealed a fact long true about this country, that, as Richard Hofstadter said: “It was . . . a middle-class…

— Howard Zinn

I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had…

— Ella Baker

The American middle class has always existed to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable: settled values with unsettled ones, social mobility with a sense of permanence.

— Tom Junod

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

— Eliot Engel

“If your values correspond completely with the ones prevalent in society currently, or if what you believe as your core values keep changing with…

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

We forgot that Martin Luther King, Jr. changed his discourse toward the end of his life because he understood that the real fundamental problem…

— Raoul Peck

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

— Viggo Mortensen

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Those upper classes, to rule, needed to make concessions to the middle class, without damage to their own wealth or power, at the expense…

— Howard Zinn

Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

— Jack Schwartz

I believe what Martin Luther King Jr. believed. You remember what the title of the March on Washington was? "Jobs and Freedom." What King…

— Bernie Sanders