White Man Quotes - Page 21

• If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. And what America is trying to do is pass laws to force whites to pretend that they want Negroes into their schools or into - in their places of employment.

  Malcolm X

  School, Men, Gun

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• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that if the - what should happen is the black man himself should learn how to develop himself, in the same sense that the white man has developed himself. Then they can both come together and recognize each other as equals.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Black, Together

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• White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Men, People, Justice

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.21, U of Nebraska Press

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• This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Fighting, Men, Winning

  "Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880".

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• What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

  Galarrwuy Yunupingu

  Leadership, Men, Australia

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• It was a good script [Something New]. We have not seen an interracial issue dealt with from a black woman and white man's perspective in this way. And, usually, it's a black man, white woman. I loved the fact that it wasn't about the couple being against the world or the couple against the family. I loved the fact that it was her dealing with her own prejudices that came up, her own guilt, her own shame and embarrassment about what her peers thought.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Couple, Men, Issues

  Source: www.today.com

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• Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man, has found it impossible to bring about integration, other than toke on a ta - other than on a token basis, and which proves that the, the two of us, the ex-slave and the master, can't live in the same house as equals.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Two, White

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• The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Men, White

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• No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already ... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Talking, Class

  "Brown University student uncovers lost Malcolm X speech". www.nj.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Music, God

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• I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

  Nelson Mandela

  Equality, Men, Black

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

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• Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shared not only linguistic meanings but also an experience and history. Those communities have progressively split in the twentieth century, and grown more heterogeneous, and writers emerging from minority communities have found themselves addressing audiences closer to their experience and history - a phenomenon derided by conservative white men as identity politics and multiculturalism in the arts.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Art, Men, Identity Politics

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Time, Jesus, Heart

  Ralph Abernathy (1989). “And the walls came tumbling down: an autobiography”, Harpercollins

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• The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Children, Islamic, Fighting

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• How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? . . . Twelve white men say a black man must die, and another white man sets the date and time without consulting one black person. . . . They sentence you to death because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time, with no proof that you had anything at all to do with the crime . . . . Yet six months later they come and unlock your cage and tell you, We, us, white folks all, have decided it's time for you to die, because this is the convenient date and time.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Men, People, Black

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• I remember after I dated this white man, nobody said anything but there was a couple of men in my family that joked after that. 'Oh yeah, we had a party when y'all broke up. Hee hee hee.' And, you know, they laughed, and it was like light and a joke. But, you know, that's real. That was real and they let me know. And, it's almost acceptable within our culture to be prejudiced toward whites because of our history. This country is loaded with racism .

  Sanaa Lathan

  Country, Couple, Real

  "Sanaa Lathan tries 'Something New'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. August 4, 2010.

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• The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

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• Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

  Malcolm X

  Teaching, Men, America

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• The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter. But he's teaching the black people to suffer peacefully, patiently, until the white man makes up his mind that you're a human being the same as he.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Teaching, Men

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• I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Relationship, Brother, Men

  Quoted in New York Journal-American, 10 Sept. 1962

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• Instead of working for white man and helping him hold up a government that continues to suppress us socially and, and exploit us economically and oppress us politically, let us go and enter our own territory and use our own talents to uplift ourselves by our own bootstraps. And then he will recognize us for what we are.

  Malcolm X

  Uplifting, Men, Use

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• It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.

  Cate Blanchett

  Running, Men, Long

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Jobs, Winning, Men

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• I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes, cops who feel more free to open fire against African Americans.

  Allan Nairn

  Gun, Men, Fire

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, Land, Water

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