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When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight… — Halle Berry
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races… — Abraham Lincoln
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in… — Abraham Lincoln
Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the… — Abraham Lincoln
It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside… — Clarence Page
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder… — Jean Genet
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to… — Susan Sontag
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and… — Terry Pratchett
Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North. — Andrew Johnson
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black. — James A. Baldwin
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became… — Maggie Gallagher
White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears. — Unknown Author
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy. — Joan Baez
You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the… — Chris Rock
When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.… — Joseph Rodman Drake
There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from… — Harry J. Anslinger
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking… — Malcolm X
The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of… — Mel White
The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America,… — C. Wright Mills
I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But… — Robin Morgan
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are… — Alfred Kinsey
All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States… — Helena Rubinstein
This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will enter modern civilization… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped. — Nathan McCall
In the realm of culture in America, white European culture has held the floor for centuries; just as with any one-sided conversation, a balance can… — David Mura

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