Manning Marable Quotes

#1. The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design, had no clear social program that realistically could be implemented (215).

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#6. The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

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#7. 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."

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#8. At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

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