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In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle. — Ken McCarthy
The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear truth that those who every… — James Otis
If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff? — George Carlin
We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let's make it… — Rand Paul
Terrorism is not new to black people. — Vernon Jordan
I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because i grew up… — Tupac Shakur
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! — Gerard Manley Hopkins
We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American… — Maya Angelou
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around… — Maya Angelou
The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross. — James A. Baldwin
Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by… — Unknown Author
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. — Julian Bond
Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time,… — D. H. Lawrence
Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the… — Mark Twain
No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education,… — Jimmy Carter
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time… — Shirley Chisholm
Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem. — Pearl Cleage
I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if… — Martin Delany
We've got Chinese, white, black and mixed; but remember that our colors are cheap, for after many years of contracts and tricks nobody's purity runs… — Nicolas Guillen
The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal. — Unknown Author
We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man. — John Oliver Killens
We are not fighting for the right to be like you. We respect ourselves too much for that. When we advocate freedom, we mean freedom… — John Oliver Killens
We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the… — Audre Lorde

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