"America has grown affluent with the decisive contribution of our blood and our toil. But the fruits of our labor have seldom reverted back to us. In return for our work, we have received destitution and terror and have been consistently prevented from seizing control over the circumstances of our lives...Black people can never be truly free-economically, socially, politically-until the entire fabric of this society is first dissolved, then transformed and restructured in harmony with our needs, our interests, our dreams."[1]
[1] Henry Olela and Shirley Williams (Eds.), Philosophical Inquiry: An Investigation of
Basic Philosophical Presuppositions (Washington D.C.: The Institute for
Services to Education, Inc., 1974) pp. 160-161
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