White Man Quotes - Page 8

• I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.

  Sitting Bull

  Believe, Men, Injured

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.45, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

  Neil Cavuto

  Money, Men, Thinking

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• Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  War, Men, Foundation

  Alexander H. Stephens' “Corner Stone” Speech, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 21, 1861.

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• The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years.

  George Crook

  Men, Years, Eggs

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• If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Heart, Men

  "I have spoken; American history through the voices of the Indians". Book by Virginia Armstrong, Chicago, Sage Books, 1971.

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• Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Men, Black, Done

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• My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

  Chief Joseph

  Father, Men, Firsts

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• I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact.

  Megyn Kelly

  Jesus, Mean, Men

  "No, Megyn Kelly, Santa Is Not White" by Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. December 12, 2013.

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• In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Supremacy, Ends

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• As a race, the African is inferior to the white man. Subordination to the white man is his normal condition. He is not his equal by nature and cannot be made so by human laws or human institutions. Our system, therefore, so far as regards this inferior race, rests upon this great immutable law of nature.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  Men, Race, Law

  "What America Needs To Understand About Confederate Monuments" by Brandon Benner, www.theodysseyonline.com. June 12, 2017.

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• White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Blessed, Men, Race

  "White Self-Hate: Master-Stroke Of The Enemy". Book by George Lincoln Rockwell, archive.org. 1967.

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• We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We see in the world around us many symbols that teach us the meaning of life. We have a saying that the white man sees so little, he must see with only one eye. We see a lot that you no longer notice. You could notice if you wanted to, but you are usually too busy. We Indians live in a world of symbols and images where the spiritual and commonplace are one…We try to understand them not with the head but with the heart

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Spiritual, Heart, Eye

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• Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them!

  Mary Slessor

  Jesus, Men, People

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• I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Men, Zanzibar, Gone

  Henry Morton Stanley (1872). “How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa: Including an Account of Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone”, p.34

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• Bear in Mind...that all Histories from the Rock at Plymouth, and Jamestown to the present time, have been made by white men, and a man who tells his own story, is always right until the adversary's tale is told.

  Sam Houston

  Men, White, Rocks

  Sam Houston (1941). “The writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863”

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• Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Men, Vision, Dollars

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• The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.

  Alexandra Fuller

  War, Fighting, Men

  Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc).

  Quanah Parker

  Jesus, Men, Church

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• Senator John Stennis:
  The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

  Joe Biden

  Men, White, Rights

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• I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep

  Nina Simone

  Believe, Men, Hair

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• Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view.

  Chancellor Williams

  Leadership, Responsibility, Writing

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• I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave.

  Khalid Abdul Muhammad

  Men, Giving, Hell

  "Nation of Islam Associate: Ex-Official Dies After Suffering Hemorrhage". www.beliefnet.com.

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• I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum—are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color…I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "2008 Black Homophobia". slog.thestranger.com. November 5, 2008.

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• My young men shall never work, men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams. You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mothers breast? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men. But how dare I cut off my mother's hair.

  Smohalla

  Dream, Mother, Native American

  "Wisdom of the North American Indian in speech and legend". Book by Alexander Francis Chamberlain, 1913.

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