White Man Quotes - Page 2

• I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, Authority, Chiefs

  North American Review, Apr. 1879

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• The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Men, Long, Mind

  Timothy Thomas Fortune, Seth Moglen (2007). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, White

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• While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Opportunity, Men, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.362, Wildside Press LLC

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• I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

  James McBride

  Men, Understanding, Important

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• Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.

  Claudia Rankine

  Men, Imagination, Police

  "Race, wit and mansplaining: female authors debate at Los Angeles books festival" by Michelle Dean, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2015.

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• Jesus was a white man, too. Its like we have, hes a historical figure thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?

  Megyn Kelly

  Jesus, Kids, Men

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• The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

  Roland Joffe

  Men, India, Necks

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• Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men, white women, and black men. And they have had to understand themselves. When black women win victories, it is a boost for virtually every segment of society.

  Angela Davis

  Winning, Men, Black

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• In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

  Jared Taylor

  Men, Race, Honest

  "Noble Lies Are for Children". Interview with John Derbyshire, www.unz.com. December 23, 2010.

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• If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk.
  If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

  Bill Cosby

  Fall, Men, Race

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• The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you will let anyone come in and take control of the economy of your community, control the housing, control the education, control the jobs, control the businesses, under the pre-text that you want to integrate. No, you outta your mind.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Intelligent, Men

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• The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.

  Chief Seattle

  Beautiful, Death, Country

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.

  Kanye West

  Men, Drug, Cracks

  Song: Self Conscious

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• During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them are excellent. But most reflect George Bernard Shaw’s warning that 'if you do not tell your stories others will tell them for you and they will vulgarize and degrade you.'

  Ishmael Reed

  Men, Black, Stories

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• Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Men, Ideas

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• One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Respect, Ghetto

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• It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, White

  Frantz Fanon (1994). “A Dying Colonialism”, p.47, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Devil, Earth

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

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• Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the next morning, wake when it rang, and go to class.

  Sherman Alexie

  Morning, Men, White

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• In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

  Major Taylor

  Friends, Men, Class

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.

  Malcolm X

  Beautiful, Men, Want

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• If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Attitude, Men, Racism

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• Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Men, Europe

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jan 14, 2012

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• For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to "civilize" Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the African people.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Men, People, Suffering

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