White Quotes - Page 20

• That is an extremely important role: how white brothers and sisters laterally spread knowledge, insight, and challenge in a way that white brothers and sisters will not hear it from a person like me, necessarily.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Brother, Challenges, Important

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I hope [white brothers and sisters] read this book [Tears we cannot stop] and engage with it, but other white people have a better chance of speaking more directly to the white folk they know, because they're less likely to be subject to ridicule. They're insiders, so to speak.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Brother, Book, People

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• Remember, we're talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] about 1967, the year before [Martin Luther] King's assassination. We're talking about the emergence of black power, which is a discussion King mentioned in his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? We're talking about the meaning of black power and the possibility that it alienated our supporters, both white and black.

  Danny Glover

  Kings, Book, Talking

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think it will be interesting to see what happens in that small confine at the White House, when you have all the media that`s been assigned to cover the White House, and you start getting the same kind of questions, the same kind of approach.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Media, Interesting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I am a member of that small, little group that covers - I`m a member of the White House correspondents association. I go to the White House every day.

  Donald Trump

  House, Groups, Littles

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I have to say, early on, to be fair, in the [Barack] Obama administration, the Obama White House said that Fox News was not a true news organization.

  Donald Trump

  Organization, House, News

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I do not speak for the White House correspondents association. I`m not a member.

  Bill Press

  House, Association, Speak

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The solidarity - now, you can`t challenge [Donald Trump] until he gets there [White House], but let me tell you, we are united. We are going to do our job.

  Bill Press

  Jobs, House, Challenges

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I can't tell you, I couldn't put a number on it, but it's big, the number of white voters in America that voted for Obama thinking it was the end of racial strife. Thinking by electing a black, that America would be stating, "We're not racist anymore." And I warned everybody, "It's not gonna happen, it's gonna get worse. It's going to get worse." And it was, it did become worst.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Numbers, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The White House, as Warren Harding said, and I think accurately, is an alchemist. We find out the strengths, the weaknesses and the smarts and the dumbs of whoever those occupants are under the pressure of the presidency.

  Mark Shields

  Smart, Thinking, House

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.

  David Brooks

  Country, Real, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Donald Trump is speaking on behalf of the White House, of the executive branch of the United States. Credibility matters.

  Jonathan Karl

  House, United States, Branches

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Historically during the years of the White minority regimes, the State, the national Government held this land in trust for these communities. We said, but no, why should we do that ( return the land to the communities). We didn't say return the land to particular traditional leaders, but to the communities.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Government, Years, Land

  Source: www.gov.za

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• You know, you walk through this hotel, you're not going to see all white people; you're not going to see all black people; you're going to see what the world looks like. I promised myself that if I ever got an opportunity where I would be able to make a difference and have a say, that I would want to deliver [that] message [of inclusivity].

  George Lopez

  Opportunity, Differences, People

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I'm dreaming of a white president. Just like the ones we've always had. A real live white man. Who knows the score, how to handle money or start a war. Wouldn't even have to tell me what we were fighting for. He'd be the right man, if he were a white man.

  Randy Newman

  Dream, President

  "I'm Dreaming of a White President". Poem by Randy Newman, www.theguardian.com. 2012.

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• There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.

  Randy Newman

  Men, America, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Things aren't black and white in the world.

  Randy Newman

  Black And White, Black, World

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• It's clear that he was incredibly courageous in his critique of white supremacy, wealth inequality, and imperial power as it relates to war in particular. But it's easy to deodorize Martin King, to sanitize or sterilize him. And I simply want to reveal his radical love and his radical analysis as what they really were.

  Cornel West

  Kings, War, Analysis

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!

  Dick Gregory

  School, College, Garden

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I would have painted the White House black. I would have!

  Dick Gregory

  House, Black, White House

  "Comedian Dick Gregory says the hot-button issues of the '60s haven't cooled down". newsok.com. April 16, 2015.

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• The only thing I like about St. Louis is it has the best zoo in America, in Forest Park. Washington University is next door to the zoo. Animals get out, they're going to eat white people before they get to the ghetto!

  Dick Gregory

  Zoos, Ghetto, Animal

  "Comedian Dick Gregory says the hot-button issues of the '60s haven't cooled down". newsok.com. April 16, 2015.

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• Black folks tell their kids they have to be twice as good as a white person? Well, if I tell a child of mine that, or that they have to be careful - that this is what a cop would do if you do this - they think something is wrong with them. I tell them death is better.

  Dick Gregory

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful.

  Dick Gregory

  Beautiful, Brother, Writing

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks who were not scared. I was behind the president this time. When I was a little boy and ran around with trifling dudes, I was the only one scared of dogs. And I was bitten 14 times! Dogs smell scared. And that's the same thing with people: 50 years ago they smelled fear. There was no fear this time.

  Dick Gregory

  Dog, Boys, Years

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.

  Dick Gregory

  Laughing, Chicago, Defeated

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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