White Quotes - Page 8

• Young black men are guilty of criminal behavior not because of the alleged crimes they might commit but because they are the product of a collective imagination paralyzed by the racism of a white supremacist culture they can only view them as a dangerous nightmare.

  Henry Giroux

  Men, Views, Racism

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The real nightmare resides in a society that hides behind the mutually informing and poisonous notions of colorblindness and a post-racial society, a convenient rhetorical obfuscation that allows white Americans to ignore the institutional and individual racist ideologies, practices and policies that cripple any viable notion of justice and democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  Real, Practice, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When Donald Trump talks about the rigged, corrupt system, remember, he's standing up for the forgotten man and the forgotten woman. This is not about him. This is about the people. This is about folks who are white-knuckled at the end of each month trying to pay the bills. This is about the people who feel like their pressing their nose against the glass of the rigged system and can't get in, they're just watching everybody else benefit.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Men, Glasses, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think after Sam Nunn left, I'm the last guy in the Senate who got a majority white male vote in their state.

  Joe Biden

  Thinking, Guy, Majority

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Go back and take a look at what some black writers were saying in the 1820s, the 1830s. They make mention of how some white people would tell their children, if you don't behave, we're going to put you in the n - - seat. If you don't behave, we are going to make you sit with the n - - s. That's why we know that, by then, the word had become a slur.

  Randall Kennedy

  Children, People, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.

  Richard Pryor

  People, Calling, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We`re going to be opening up the old post office where we spent over $200 million, and built the most magnificent hotel, I think, anywhere in the country on Pennsylvania Avenue right between the White House and congress.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Opening Up

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, Wish, Cows

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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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, White Man

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• One of the things I remember as a child: There was a man named Joe Pulliam. He was a great Christian man; but one time, he was living with a white family and this white family robbed him of what he earned. They didn't pay him anything. This white man gave him $150 to go to the hill, (you see, I lived in the Black Belt of Mississippi)... to get another Negro family. Joe Pulliam knew what this white man had been doing to him so he kept the $150 and didn't go.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Christian, Children, Men

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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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, Years, Three

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• We have been listening year after year to [white people] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think for ourselves. "I know what is best for you," but they don't know what is best for us! It is time now to let them know what they owe us, and they owe us a great deal.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• When I got on that plane, it was loaded with white people going to Africa for the Peace Corps. I got there and met a lot of them, and actually they had more peace there in Guinea than I have here. I talked to some of them. I told them before they would be able to clean up somebody else's house you would have to clean up yours; before they can tell somebody else how to run their country, why don't they do something here.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Running, Country, People

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• I got pictures of us and they would draw big red rings around us and tell what they thought of us. I got a letter said, "I have been shot three times throught the heart. I hope I see your second act." But this white man who wants to stay white, and to think for the Negro, he is not only destroying the Negro, he is destroying himself, because a house divided against itself cannot stand and that same thing applies to America.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and white together, but this man, Congressman Jamie Whitten, voted against it and everything that was decent. So, we've got to have somebody in Washington who is concerned about the people of Mississippi.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, People, Together

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• In fact, one day I was going to Jackson and I saw a huge sign that U.S. Senator John Stennis was speaking that night for the White Citizens Council in Yazoo City and they also have a State Charter that they may set up for "private schools." It is no secret.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  School, Night, Cities

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• I do remember, one time, a man came to me after the students began to work in Mississippi and he said the white people were getting tired and they were getting tense and anything might happen. Well, I asked him "how long he thinks we had been getting tired"? I have been tired for 46 years and my parents was tired before me and their parents were tired, and I have always wanted to do something that would help some of the things I would see going on among Negroes that I didn't like and I don't like now.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Tired, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• On the one hand, to suggest that white poll watchers are going to black communities threatening and provocative. On the other hand is to suggest that if that same line of vote is he also resists making a commitment to honor the winner of the campaign, that there is another agenda.

  Jesse Jackson

  Commitment, Hands, Community

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We`re going to put sanity back into the White House.

  Donald Trump

  House, Sanity, White House

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.

  Gene Weingarten

  Coincidence, Trump

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• In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told anyone this - and my first basketball coach, Mr. Shimizu, into one character. Something about the way they talked about things, and their attitudes, had a huge impact on me. Not that I necessarily agreed with them. It was important to me to just put them there to stay grounded.

  Paul Beatty

  Basketball, Teacher, Attitude

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Is it more important that you, as a white male, read my work and learn from it, or what you call me? I think it's more important that you read my work, reflect on it, and allow it to transform your life and your thinking in some way.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Important, Way

  Source: nefac.net

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• The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's, and those Wall Street people who are determining their fate... whose thievery and greed is determining their fate.

  Bell Hooks

  Wall, Fate, People

  Source: nefac.net

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• When we were growing up we only got two pairs of shoes every year. With me, I was lucky because I got three pairs of shoes, the third were basketball shoes: Black Air Force Ones, White Air Force Ones, and boots for the winter.

  Iman Shumpert

  Basketball, Growing Up, Winter

  Source: wwd.com

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