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5417 White quotes by 3130 unique authors

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.
When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief… — Doris Lessing
Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much… — Charles Lindbergh
Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. — Malcolm X
The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle… — Malcolm X
One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a… — H. L. Mencken
It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have… — William Ruckelshaus
"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they… — Gertrude Stein
Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really… — Barbra Streisand
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the… — Tecumseh
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and… — Desmond Tutu

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