Angela Davis Quotes

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

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

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

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, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

Hurricane Katrina was a disaster. It exposed the soft underbelly of America when it comes to race and class.

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

What the poor did to the poor was the business of the poor, not the business of the proper people who ran the city.

There are two Americas. One which influences government and economic policy and the other which must live with the results.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

For the middle class, the police protect property, give directions, and help old ladies. For the urban poor, the police are those who arrest you.

It has been the purpose of the ruling class, apparently, to build new barriers between themselves and the common people, rather than tear away any of those already existing. I think no one can understand the actual condition of the mass of whites in Georgia and the Carolinas, except by some daily contact with them. The injustice done to three fourths of them was hardly less than that done to all the blacks.... Nine of every ten white men in South Carolina had almost as little to do with even State affairs as the negroes had.

When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them.

Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.