Western Hemisphere Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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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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You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically correct. Everyone who's…
— Russell Means
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We can look forward to the day when the free flow of trade, from the southern reaches of Tierra del Fuego to the northern outposts…
— Ronald Reagan
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We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from…
— Lee Harvey Oswald
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Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in…
— James W. Loewen
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This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence…
— John F. Kennedy
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We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st…
— Edward James Olmos
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Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.
— Edward James Olmos
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In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was…
— Henry Louis Gates
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America…
— Malcolm X
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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
— Bill Walton
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Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.
— Helen Fisher
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He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two…
— Douglas Adams
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You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You…
— Malcolm X
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For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the…
— Adam Hochschild
Who Wrote These Western Hemisphere Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 Western Hemisphere Quotes as follows: