A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King Jr., “On Riots,” c. 1960
Jean-Jacques Lequeu, Temple Consacré à l’Egalité, c. 1780
Whereas the ghetto of the 1940s was a place where all classes of African-American families were forced to live [via segregation], the ghetto of the 1980s was a place where the most impoverished African-Americans had been abandoned.
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools — intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it — this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life. On this foundation we may build bread winning, skill of hand and quickness of brain, with never a fear lest the child and man mistake the means of living for the object of life.
W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Talented Tenth" in Opposition to Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise, 1903