"This country, with its pervasive institutional racism, has itself created socially undesirable conditions; it merely perpetuates those conditions when it lays the blame on people who, through whatever means at their disposal, seek to strike out at the conditions."
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Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton, |date=1967 |publisher=Vintage Books |isbn=978-0-394-70033-5 |page=161}}
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