Class Quote by Malcolm X

That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting…

— Malcolm X

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

I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called…

— Jon Kyl

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

— H. Rap Brown

You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

“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

Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby Show,' because…

— August Wilson

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means…

— Angela Davis

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

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

Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong…

— Jackie Robinson