The mass criminalization of white men would disturb us to the core. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better. — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe;” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Some people resented the fact I was trying to break a white man's record. — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Any white man with half a brain in America can make a good living if he really wants to” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In South Africa, we've been watching these movies all our lives - 'Batman,' 'Superman,' 'Captain America' - and every time the mask… — John Kani Copy Share Image
Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem.… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry… — Frank Nugent Copy Share Image
Black people ALL are fightin' you all for freedom, justice and equality. One believes that intermarriage is gonna solve it, and 200… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The issue of redistribution of resources and wealth needs to resolved systemically, but in the meantime but there are individual spots you… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most… — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didin't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we didn't… — John (Fire) Lame Deer Copy Share Image
“And the others, who have avoided all of these deaths, get up in the morning and go downtown to meet “the man.”… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that’s been coming from the right and those who cater… — Bryant Gumbel Copy Share Image
“The White Man has taken most of our land. He has paid us nothing for it. He has destroyed or driven away… — William F. Cody Copy Share Image
The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“all of it, all of that bounty, was for everyone, for everyone to use, seemingly put here to teach a man to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image