White Quotes - Page 19

• Progressives are the majority; we won the popular vote by a long shot and Donald Trump and the congressional Republicans representing mainly rich old white men are a minority. If we stand up together and use the effective strategies and tactics the tea party used, we believe we can stop them.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Party, Believe, Men

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• One strategy that the tea party smartly embraced was one of being almost entirely defensive. They consciously decided not to figure out which of their really abominable conservative policy priorities to prioritize. Instead, anything that came out of the Obama White House they were against. What they recognized is that when you've lost the White House and the House of Representatives and the Senate, you're not setting the agenda anymore. We progressives find ourselves in a similar situation now.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Party, House, Priorities

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• I'm going to do everything I can to help Hillary Clinton get elected and I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that Donald Trump never comes within shouting distance of the White House.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Distance, House, Helping

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Years, Southern, Adults

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

  Kevin Drum

  Fall, Black, Crime

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• Do you really want to put a woman into the White House who supports the greatest assault on women of all? And that is murdering them in the womb before they have a chance to be born.

  Robert Jeffress

  Support, House, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Impossible Things, House, Goldfish

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• I want to see a Jew in the White house.

  Kinky Friedman

  House, Want, Jew

  Source: www.axs.com

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• We have Latinas in California making 55 cents on the dollar. Black women making 63 cents on the dollar. White women making 78 cents on the dollar. It doesn't change very much year by year, it might go up or down a penny, but oftentimes, the years that it goes up are the same years that men are making a little bit more. It's pretty much always in proportion.

  Patricia Arquette

  Men, Years, California

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be viewed as this myopic problem, because it's not. It's in 98 percent of all businesses, and it's easy for people to dismiss this conversation when they think it's around white women entertainers. But this is about all women in America.

  Patricia Arquette

  Thinking, Equal Pay, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're not talking about poverty in a day when it meant not enough bedrooms for the kids, an old car, a black and white television. We're talking about a whole world where poverty meant not enough to eat.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Reading, Kids, Black And White

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• Whatever column you fall in - Christian, gay, straight, Black, White - there is no world where people exist that are exactly like you. No one group of people can righteously rule the world. There will be people who differ in opinion, and even in that difference of opinion, we must respect each other.

  T.I.

  Christian, Fall, Gay

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then I went directly to rhythm and blues, which had beautiful voices but not much melody in particular and pretty much the same chord pattern. I loved it, I was entrenched in it, but then folk music came in the middle of that for me, and made its own path. And it was part of the rebellion against bubblegum music, or music that is pretty but doesn't say anything.

  Joan Baez

  Beautiful, Voice, Say Anything

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• One of my earliest memories was President [J.F.] Kennedy's funeral. I actually remember sitting on the floor in the living room looking at our black-and-white television and watching the caisson roll by and hearing the clip-clop of the horses. It's actually one of my earliest memories.

  Mike Pence

  Horse, Memories, Black And White

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• My passion today is not only justice for the Black man and woman of America, but for all those who cry out to the Supreme Being for justice in their lives - and that's Black, Brown, Red, Yellow and White, for the whole of humanity has been deprived of that which The Creator has ordered for us, and that is freedom, justice, equality, and submission to the Will of Allah.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Passion, Men, Yellow

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Every revolutionary thinker in America, White, Black, Brown or Red, never got the true representation from the corporate-controlled media.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Media, America, Black

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• To the government, terrorism committed by people who happen to be Muslim is not in any way a reflection of legitimate interpretation of Islam. You might find this hard to believe, but if you're doubting any of this, just search your own memory. All the times that we have heard that Islam's a religion of peace and that we can't use the word "terrorism" to describe it and Obama will not use it. And then remember all the times that this administration actually claims that violence by white right-wing white Christians poses a greater threat to the people of America than Islam.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Christian, Memories, Believe

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I don't care if you're talking about gay, straight, black, white, how in the name of hell can you guarantee that nobody will ever feel unwelcome? I have felt it unwelcome everywhere I've been in life. Everybody else has, too. I mean, not everywhere, but it happens.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Gay, Talking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The only time there's gonna be a transgender bathroom in the White House is during a gay rights ceremony. You know as well as I do that that's not going to happen.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gay, Rights, House

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• He who wins the independents wins the White House. That's a liberal Democrat trick, by the way.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, House, Way

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• My take is this. The Republicans control the Senate. They have the majority of the House, and they have the White House. They can do whatever they want to do, really.

  Maxine Waters

  House, Majority, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Healthy, Breakfast

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a complicated black community that was both bulwark to the larger white society as well as a threshing ground, so to speak, to hash out the differences that black people have among ourselves.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Art, Wrestling, Differences

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white identity that's been rendered invisible and neutral because it's seen as objective and universal. As a result, we don't pay attention to how whiteness is one among many racial identities, and that identity politics have been here since the get-go.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Heart, Identity Politics, Missing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for [Donald] Trump, and do not participate in that brand of animus, that gas-bagging of enormous bigotry.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Brother, Degrees, May

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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