" Other experiences sharpened my feeling for how racism
was woven through American life. I belonged to the Political
Science Society, which naturally thought itself progressive.
Some of its speakers, I became aware, looked at my people as
another breed, less human than they. Politicians came to talk
and gave us such liberal sentiments as, "We've got to help
the Negro because the Negro is limited," or, "Of course, the
Negro people have always been the laborers and will continue
to be. So we've got to make it more comfortable for them. "

― , Unbought And Unbossed