Improving Quote by Robert E. Lee

True human progress, that which can be linked to evolution, and which prolongs it, can only consist in perfecting and ameliorating man himself and…

— Dr Carl Sagan

Soon now, as the Negro awakens a little more and sees the vise that he's in, sees the bag that he's in, sees the…

— Malcolm X

I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even…

— Brian K. Vaughan

“Great, I’m going to be white trash at my own wedding.”

— Monica Alexander

Any comedic roles that I've gone out for usually end up going to a white woman or a gay man instead.

— Tiffany Haddish

I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair,…

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.

— Rosa Parks

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

— Malcolm X

When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and the white…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

— Bill Cosby

The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence;…

— Alexis de Tocqueville