Back Quote by David Grann

“The crooked guardians and administrators of Osage estates were typically among the most prominent white citizens:”

— David Grann

“The white mobs followed blacks into the surrounding forests and marshes and shot many victims in the back as they fled. Several bodies were…

— E.R. Bills

“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always regarded as…

— James W. Loewen

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

— Chief Joseph

The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they…

— Maya Angelou

We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents…

— Nicholas Kristof

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the…

— Sara Paretsky

Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such…

— David Roediger

“The whites who administered Native American subjugation claimed to be recruiting the Indians to join them in a truer, more coherent worldview—but whether it…

— Rebecca Solnit

“It is not a secret that most American and Western institutions and workplaces are very much like mountains: the higher one climbs, the whiter…

— Louis Yako

For most of our nation's history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere…

— Charles Murray

Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit…

— Peggy McIntosh