“Each member of the Black majority is a prisoner, and shares the marks of oppression upon his/her shoulders. Each Black worker is a representative of the collective patterns of exploitation, the series of murders, the lynchings, the mutilations. Each has been touched by starvation and unemployment. Each has experienced through his/her own life or through the lives of others, destitution, illiteracy, prostitution, disease and death at an early age. Acceptance of bourgeois illusions provides no temporal salvation; the crushing blows of the workplace, the police and the racists form a chorus which proclaims to the Black majority: you are not human beings”
— How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America