White Man Quotes - Page 22

• No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Practice, People

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• I will not be on this planet. I may come back in another form, and you know, I'll come back as a white man.

  Pam Grier

  Men, May, Form

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• What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not willing to sit around and wait for five years to get this problem solved, much less a hundred years.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Men, White

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• [My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming equipment. As soon as he bought that and decided to rent some land, because it was always better if you rent the land, but as soon as he got the mules and wagons and everything, somebody went to our trough - a white man who didn't live very far from us - and he fed the mules Paris Green, put it in their food and it killed the mules and our cows.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Father, Men, Land

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• When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Men, America, Said

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• For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing! They own wardrobes, slaves, carriages, houses, warehouses, and ships. They own ports, cities, plantations, valleys, mountains, chains of islands. They own this world, its jungles, its skies, and its seas. Yet they complain that Dejima is a prison. They complain they are not free.

  David Mitchell

  Men, Sea, Sky

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• This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, White, Years

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• Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, America, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.321, Dial Press

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• ...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the English. There are still young white men who are angry about that; who will roll out at closing time into the poorly lit streets with a kitchen knife wrapped in a tight fist. But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.

  Zadie Smith

  Men, Knives, Laughing

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.272, Vintage

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• If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a bit more color and texture, but the Senate -- jeez. Yes, let's have more testosterone running the country. Maximum Ride, School's Out--Forever

  James Patterson

  Running, Country, School

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• Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man ... cannot be exempt from the common destiny.

  Chief Seattle

  Regret, Destiny, Men

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• Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Men, Wife

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.240, Ballantine Books

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• Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Writing, Men, Racism

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• When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with "hate". He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol, of "hatred"--and that will help him escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show, the history of unspeakable crimes that his race has committed against my race.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Book, Men

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.388, Ballantine Books

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• They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Black, Slavery

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• When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn’t, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, Differences, Issues

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.61, Faber & Faber

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• When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.

  George Orwell

  Men, Tyrants, Trying

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• The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Inferiority, Behave

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.60, Pluto Press

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• Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Children, Men, People

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• In the past, Being able to follow what you're naturally "should" be good at was limited to a very few people in a country like the United States, It was white men who basically had the privileges - or, you name whatever country it is, there's some group of elites who, through various processes of democratization and things like the internet and the information that's available. It's exploding!

  Robert Greene

  Country, Past, Men

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• Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts....Now we are together again to make peace. My shame is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends have advised me to do. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses and everything else, it is hard for me to believe the white men any more.

  Black Kettle

  Horse, Believe, Native American

  "Who is the Savage?" by Black Kettle, www.pbs.org. 2001.

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• We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it. Perhaps now that the time has come, We are fearful that what you take will be lost.... I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success: His education, his skills, and society.

  Chief Dan George

  Beautiful, Taken, Native American

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• I think she [Michelle Obama] is reluctant to date someone she's above at work. It's 1989, she's at a law firm, surrounded by mostly white men, and she has to prove herself every day.

  Tika Sumpter

  Men, Thinking, Law

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• Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Rights, Voting

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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