You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
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If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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.
I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.
Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.
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