Bad Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

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

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

I'm just seeing as I grow older, and hopefully wiser, that a lot of things I see from a race perspective are class problems…

— Killer Mike

There's no reason in the world why black [people] should not be regarded as an attribute that is not degrading but is positive. There's…

— John Hope Franklin

Not all white people are bad.

— Malaak Shabazz

If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a large pool…

— Howard Zinn

Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either…

— Charles Barkley

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind.…

— Nikki Giovanni

Among liberals and Democrats, there is this notion that the poor - especially the black poor - can do no wrong. If you criticize…

— Gregory Kane

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

— Harry Wong