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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
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority. — James A. Baldwin
Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white. They had to… — Cornel West
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
America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of… — Unknown Author
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
Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being… — Frantz Fanon
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men… — William Faulkner
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
If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not… — Unknown Author
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are… — Langston Hughes
Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept. — Zora Neale Hurston
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them. — James Weldon Johnson
Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say to him, "No,… — Chief Joseph
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
The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered. — 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.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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