Earth Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

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

I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most vicious resistance…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Whiteness is an advantage and privilege because you have made it so, not because the universe demands it.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

“You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The Negro is…

— Sue Monk Kidd

To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces.

— Joy Reid

As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The Nazis played the same games against Jews that today’s left plays against 'Eurocentrism,' 'whiteness,' and 'logocentrism.' When you hear a campus radical denounce…

— Anonymous

You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness:…

— Pablo Neruda

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

— Arundhati Roy