Blacks Quotes
323 quotes by 249 authors
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What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It's no different…
— Jay-Z
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Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by…
— Julian Bond
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Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a…
— Walter E. Williams
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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved…
— Thomas Sowell
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Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
— James Madison
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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use…
— George Washington
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We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our…
— Anais Nin
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Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not…
— Shelby Steele
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Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing…
— Shelby Steele
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Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts,…
— Tammy Bruce
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[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise…
— Thomas Sowell
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They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.
— Roger Brooke Taney
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Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God production. Or The…
— Jimmy Pardo
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How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? . . . How…
— Andrew Manis
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In talking about the [Emmett Till murder trial], you have to repeat the atmosphere. This is Mississippi in 1955, with a long history of intimidation…
— Charles Diggs
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My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and…
— Cindy Sherman
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Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people who…
— Sarah Silverman
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I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought th fight for the people. We're all God's children. I…
— Larry Holmes
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We don't owe the blacks a damn thing, anyway.
— Richard M. Nixon
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You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all…
— Richard M. Nixon
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