Assimilation Quote by Herbert Marcuse

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by…

— Medgar Evers

“The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which…

— Carter G. Woodson

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race…

— Booker T. Washington

“The cities change. The bus line is different. The train runs on another track, but the scene is the same. Everyday in America, South…

— Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the…

— George Packer

“Like vampires and extremely rich people, black folk can sense one another. Use your Spidey Sense (Blacky Sense?). Use your blackdar to inspect the…

— Baratunde Thurston

The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving,…

— Che Guevara

“Whatever appeals to the white working class is ennobled. What appeals to black workers, and all others outside the tribe, is dastardly identitarianism. All…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the…

— Carter G. Woodson

An American should be able choose to work in a place where he is with his kind of people and not find that at…

— Strom Thurmond

The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's,…

— Bell Hooks

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by…

— Jonathan Kozol