White Quotes - Page 14

• I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.

  Norman Lear

  Dad, Kids, Mets

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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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• 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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• 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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• White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

  Mark Shields

  Class, America, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Republican Party cannot win the White House anymore with just conservative and Republican votes.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Winning, House

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Bill] Clinton and Vernon Jordan were talking about "the kitty," the pussycat every other sentence. Vernon got Monica [Lewinsky] a gig somewhere out of the White House, got her an offer for a gig somewhere. And then after Vernon left with Monica, here came Jesse Jackson to the White House for public prayer sessions so that Bill Clinton could get right with God after this mortal transgression and sin. It was the most puke-y thing.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Prayer, Talking, House

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It is clear that many of [Republicans] do not want to try to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House. So if it's not important to keep her out of the White House, why is it important to elect you?

  Rush Limbaugh

  House, Important, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.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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• In my essays and articles I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.

  Amos Oz

  Black And White, Israel, Europe

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Thinking, Racism, Understanding

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We were very, very lucky [with Tim White filmed making historic discoveries in the East African Rift ] . In 100 years, only three skeletal remains [of early man] were ever found at this site. This was the third one, and we were right there when it happened. In fact, when I first heard they had found something, I said, "Please stop it! Don't do anything right now. Let's do it tomorrow until we have unpacked our cameras and assembled our stuff.

  Werner Herzog

  Men, Discovery, Years

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, People, Supremacy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Talking, Racism

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

  Henry Giroux

  School, Minorities, Youth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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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• 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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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