White Man Quotes - Page 19

• The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a devil, that he has no intentions of integrating, then you Negroes will run wild.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Men, America

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.

  Malcolm X

  Men, People, Black

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

  Malcolm X

  Fall, Men, Knowing

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

  Sitting Bull

  Men, White, Doe

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• Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Men, India

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• When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.

  Nicolas Cage

  Italian, Men, Sound

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• The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Misery And Pain, Diversity

  1849 'The Destiny of Colored Americans' in The North Star, 16 Nov.

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• I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

  Morgan Freeman

  Struggle, Men, Racism

  "Freeman calls Black History Month ‘ridiculous’". www.today.com. December 15, 2005.

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• I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, White, People

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• If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

  Chief Joseph

  Native American, Men, White

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Men, White

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• The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Men, People

  Documentary "The West", ("Episode 6: Fight No More Forever"), 1996.

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• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that if the - what should happen is the black man himself should learn how to develop himself, in the same sense that the white man has developed himself. Then they can both come together and recognize each other as equals.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Black, Together

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• If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Country, Kings

  "Ice Cube: Attitude". Book by Joel McIver (p. 177), 2002.

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• The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.

  Rick Moody

  Suicide, Men, White

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.

  Carlos Mencia

  Native American, Men, Thinking

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• The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

  Ida B. Wells

  Running, Home, Men

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• I've had lots of discussions with my Muslim brothers and sisters who have said to me, "Christianity is a white man's religion" But I'm like, "how is that possible when Christianity went into Africa before it ever went into central Europe?" Even the first people to become a Christian nation were not Romans, they weren't the Byzantines either, they weren't the Greeks... the first people to claim a Christian empire were the Armenians.

  Immortal Technique

  Christian, Brother, Men

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, America, Racism

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• No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

  Muhammad Ali

  Children, Mean, Men

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• When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make them, any more than a prisoner makes a prison.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ghetto, Men, White

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “The Trumpet of Conscience”, p.14, Beacon Press

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• You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

  Jess Row

  Past, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into bondage and assassinating the image of his own mother, because he himself wants to be white'I can assure you that Africa has known no greater Satan than the twins, Arab and Islam.

  Kola Boof

  Mother, Children, Men

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• To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake.

  Amartya Sen

  Mistake, Men, Land

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• I always asked my mother, I said, 'Momma, how come is everything white?' I said, 'Why is Jesus white with blond hair and blue eyes? Why is the Lord's supper all white men? Angels are white, the Pope, Mary, and even the angels.' I said, 'Mother, when we die, do we go to Heaven?' She said, 'Naturally we go to Heaven.' I said, 'Well, what happened to all the black angels?'

  Muhammad Ali

  Mother, Jesus, Eye

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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