People Quote by Chief Joseph Download Open image “I want the white people to understand my people.” — Chief Joseph ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Understand Want White White people
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
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There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends - I am the only white person in their circle. Being able to hear other perspectives besides the white… — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
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I can say it's true that if I want to understand a certain minority, I need to meet them and get to know them. — Csanad Szegedi Copy Share Image
People of color understand what it means to be white more than I ever will. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
It's always weird being the only white person in a group. It feels like everyone's looking to me for guidance. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people. — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy. — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
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Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
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I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
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