--- title: "13 White Children Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 13 White Children quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best White Children sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f04/w-h-auden-2-7412_children_oh-dear-white-children-casual-as-birds-p_2576346.jpg" --- > [“Oh dear white children, casual as birds, Playing among the ruined languages, So small beside their large confusing words.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-h-auden-2/oh-dear-white-children-casual-as-birds-playing-among-the-ruined/) [W.H. Auden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-h-auden-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f04/w-h-auden-2-7412_children_oh-dear-white-children-casual-as-birds-p_2576346.jpg) > [I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dick-gregory/i-used-to-get-letters-saying-i-didn-t-know-black-children-and-white/) [Dick Gregory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dick-gregory/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/776/dick-gregory-3266_black_i-used-to-get-letters-saying-i-didn-t-kn_246555.jpg) > [“number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-d-vance/number-of-working-class-whites-in-high-poverty-neighborhoods-is/) [J.D. Vance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-d-vance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a3/j-d-vance-3503_children_number-of-working-class-whites-in-high-p_2823875.jpg) > [Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-graham/only-when-christ-comes-again-will-the-little-white-children-of/) [Billy Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-graham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a3/billy-graham-234_again_only-when-christ-comes-again-will-the-li_233196.png) > [“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lane/we-must-secure-the-existence-of-our-people-and-a-future-for-white/) [David Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/361/david-lane-231328_life_we-must-secure-the-existence-of-our-peop_148797.jpg) > [“A few white children were friendly, but others were hostile or simply distant. Teachers unthinkingly added to both problems by physically separating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-bell/a-few-white-children-were-friendly-but-others-were-hostile-or-simply/) [Derrick Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-bell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c65/derrick-bell-16993_children_a-few-white-children-were-friendly-but-o_354026.jpg) > [Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-kozol/hypersegregated-inner-city-schools-in-which-one-finds-no-more-than/) [Jonathan Kozol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-kozol/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a8/jonathan-kozol-2747_areas_hypersegregated-inner-city-schools-in-wh_2050039.png) > [We are teaching white children to hate themselves. We are teaching nonwhite children that it's OK to bully and torment white children…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miranda-devine/we-are-teaching-white-children-to-hate-themselves-we-are-teaching/) [Miranda Devine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miranda-devine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66f/miranda-devine-5684_bullying_we-are-teaching-white-children-to-hate-t_1417911.jpg) > [Middle-class white children, children of privilege, are afforded the opportunity to make a lot of mistakes and still go on to college,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-alexander/middle-class-white-children-children-of-privilege-are-afforded-the/) [Michelle Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-alexander/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c6/michelle-alexander-750_bigs_middle-class-white-children-children-of_1943408.png) > [“I have always found it interesting that white children take so quickly to Indian ways, while Indian children, when brought to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/i-have-always-found-it-interesting-that-white-children-take-so/) [Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/485/philipp-meyer-4254_children_i-have-always-found-it-interesting-that_265417.png) > [“O dear white children casual as birds, Playing among the ruined languages, So small beside their large confusing words, So gay against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-h-auden-2/o-dear-white-children-casual-as-birds-playing-among-the-ruined/) [W.H. Auden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-h-auden-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aaa/w-h-auden-2-7412_children_o-dear-white-children-casual-as-birds-pl_472804.jpg) > [“The number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-d-vance/the-number-of-working-class-whites-in-high-poverty-neighborhoods-is/) [J.D. Vance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-d-vance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f55/j-d-vance-3503_children_the-number-of-working-class-whites-in-hi_2410083.jpg) > [I feel that when a white child goes to school only with white children, unconsciously that child grows up in many instances…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/i-feel-that-when-a-white-child-goes-to-school-only-with-white/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07e/martin-luther-king-jr-127_children_i-feel-that-when-a-white-child-goes-to-s_1869645.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/white-children/#itemlist", "name": "White Children Quotes", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Oh dear white children, casual as birds, Playing among the ruined languages, So small beside their large confusing words.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "W.H. 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