Black Quote by Henry Louis Gates

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives…

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Henry Louis Gates

How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that…

— Sonny Rollins

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

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

— Henry Louis Gates

The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a…

— Thomas Sowell

“The civil rights generation is exiting the American stage—not in a haze of nostalgia but in a cloud of gloom, troubled by the persistence…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and…

— Michael Eric Dyson

It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of the movement…

— Angela Davis

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

“The black middle class displays a torn ambivalence toward the situation of the black poor. They sympathetically recognize the harms of racism and targeted…

— Mary Pattillo

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

— Constance Baker Motley