Civilization Quote by Edwin Markham

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the…

— Frantz Fanon

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Whiteness is not a culture . . . Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position . .…

— Noel Ignatiev

I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Whites have traded their culture for power.

— Eileen O'Brien

“White [...] "Indian wannabees" or as those who mine indiginous traditions the way multinationals mine their land.”

— Derrick Jensen

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

— Chaske Spencer

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

— Edgar Allan Poe

If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and the first…

— John Medina

I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding.…

— Bocafloja

To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance to trying…

— Michael Eric Dyson