Identity politics Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent…

— Mao Zedong

“It is not right to suggest that every win for race equality results in a loss for white working-class people”

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“Many in the white working class believe the worst about their society.”

— J.D. Vance

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Not all of the white working class struggles. I knew even as a child that there were two separate sets of mores and social…

— J.D. Vance

“Racial identity can be condemned, fought, ignored, or cultivated, but it is unrealistic for a society to pretend it does not exist.”

— Jared Taylor

“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends…

— Dorothy Allison

“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

“invidious is the fact that those ideas about African Americans are unfair and socially debilitating. Some”

— John Corvino

“In a racially imperialist nation such as ours, it is the dominant race that reserves for itself the luxury of dismissing racial identity while…

— bell hooks

“The egalitarian passion is a perversion of the critical sense: atrophy of the faculty of discrimination.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“This renewed politics of otherness not only allowed entire categories of poor whites to develop a powerful sense of racial belonging, but also allowed…

— Derrick Bell