Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote. Carol Moseley Braun
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. Constance Baker Motley
And the black population was transformed, having risen up in mass action for the first time, feeling its power, knowing now that if the old order could be shaken it could be toppled. Howard Zinn