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Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

People of similar political persuasions tend to flock together.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.