Class Quote by Howard Zinn

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another. It's happened in the USA between white…

— Tim Tebow

Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're…

— Carol Browner

There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to twenty years,…

— Ayana Mathis

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor.…

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

— Constance Baker Motley

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

— Angela Davis

People who face discrimination due to the color of their skin, are often obstructed by institutional barriers across our society - from education and…

— Wayne Messam

Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face…

— Darryl Pinckney

We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and…

— Michelle Alexander

Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you…

— Hilda Solis

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one…

— Iris Chang