White Man Quotes - Page 11

• It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, White

  Frantz Fanon (1994). “A Dying Colonialism”, p.47, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Black, Weakness

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, p.74, Beacon Press

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• It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Men, Ham

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• Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Years, Law

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Reading, Men, Wife

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• Yeah, this country's founding fathers are a bunch of dead rich white men, but they did set things up so you could come and sit at the table, so don't piss in the finger bowls, all right? Thank you. In return for unfettered economic opportunity and no government death squads, try to get along with your new stepmotherland, and don't be resentful if there's a set of house rules already in place.

  Dennis Miller

  Country, Father, Opportunity

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.31, Main Street Books

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• I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

  Jim Lehrer

  Men, Gatekeepers, Used

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• The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Song, Horse, Cowboy

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• A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.

  Malcolm X

  Sports, Men, Fields

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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• The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below him appear the Negro and the Indian. These two unfortunate races have neither birth, nor face, nor language, nor mores in common; only their misfortunes look alike. Both occupy an equally inferior position in the country that they inhabit; both experience the effects of tyranny; and if their miseries are different, they can accuse the same author for them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Eye, Men

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.303, University of Chicago Press

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• When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Self, Despotism

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Moving, Night

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

  Chief Seattle

  Spring, Men, Cities

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Son, Men, Needs

  "The White Man's Burden" st. 1 (1899)

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• The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Men, Atlanta, Order

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.

  Standing Bear

  Men, Land, Trying

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• If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

  Amiri Baraka

  Loss, Men, African American

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• In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Army, Winning, Men

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Bend in the River”, p.52, Pan Macmillan

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• I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.

  Frantz Fanon

  Heart, Intelligent, Men

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.45, Pluto Press

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• The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

  Red Cloud

  Men, Land, Gold

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• I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.

  Ava DuVernay

  Mean, Men, White

  "Filmmaker Ava DuVernay". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 9, 2012.

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• If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

  Larry Elder

  Dad, Men, White

  "Radio talk show host Larry Elder". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 26, 2012.

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• Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

  Bobby Fischer

  Men, People, Black

  "Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame" by Rene Chun, www.theatlantic.com. December 2002.

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• White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!"

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Freedom, Men

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• The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?

  Chief Seattle

  God, Brother, Men

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