Scot Brown

“The liberal reformism associated with the Civil Rights era argued for an equitable and just distribution of social and political rights outlined in the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights to the entirety of the nation's citizenry. Black nationalists, however, more often than not tended to consider the nation's governing principles as being in tandem with the oppression of African Americans and other people of color. White supremacy and, sometimes, class oppression were, from this nationalist outlook, intimately connected to the core values that shape American political and economic institutions. The Civil Rights movement drew heavily from a liberal moral tradition, with a rhetorical emphasis on the contradictory disparity between the nation's stated principles and the reality of racial oppression.”
― Scot Brown, Fighting for US: Maulana Karenga, the US Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism