We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… this means a revolution of values and other things. We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together… you can’t really get rid of one without getting rid of the others… the whole structure of American life must be changed. America is a hypocritical nation and [we] must put [our] own house in order.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr. 

““The segregation of the races was really a political stratagem employed by the emerging Bourbon interests in the South to keep the southern masses divided and
southern labor the cheapest in the land.”
-Martin Luther King Jr. 

“You can’t have capitalism without racism.”

-Malcolm X 

“I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.”

- Angela Davis