Nature Quote by C.L. Bevill

“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the…

— Upton Sinclair

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned…

— Susan B. Anthony

“With this law in place, White enslavers could now reap financial reward from relations “upon a negro woman.” But they wanted to prevent the…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by…

— Mark Twain

“he hated the white men who interfered with the manly pursuits of throat-cutting, kidnapping, slave-dealing, and fire-raising,”

— Jose Conrad

“but I rarely did anything I didn't feel like doing, and maybe this was the main difference between the whites and the Comanches, which…

— Philipp Meyer

The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much…

— Tomochichi

“The tightly intertwined stories of the white working class and black Americans go back to the prehistory of the United States—and the use of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Virginia lawmakers made slave patrols compulsory for non-slaveholding Whites; these groups of White citizens were charged with policing slaves, enforcing discipline, and guarding routes…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men,we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. We…

— Lame Deer

“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“The crooked guardians and administrators of Osage estates were typically among the most prominent white citizens:”

— David Grann