"The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature jails, really. It’s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated."
Source : "'The University Should Color Itself Black, Mulatto, Worker and Peasant'". Speech to the University of Las Villas, www.themilitant.com. December 28, 1959.