17 Quotes by Manning Marable

The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.

By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond ‘black’ and ‘white,’ we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

The ‘We Have Overcome’ generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one’s face: immediately you are “universally accepted.”

You will grow to be hated when you become well known.

There is no greater serenity of mind,” Malcolm reflected, “than when one can shut the hectic noise and pace of the materialistic outside world, and seek inner peace within oneself.

The Ku Klux Klan is the invisible government of the United States,” he told his followers at Liberty Hall in 1922, and it “represents to a great extent the feelings of every real white American.