Quotes with white-knuckling

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  • Muhammad Ali The white man is destroying the world.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Malcolm X The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.
    Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Chief Seattle The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Frederick Douglass The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Black Hawk The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal. An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat up by the wolves.
    In: Biography and History of the Indians of North America Surrender speech in 1832
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  • Black Kettle The white people can go wherever they please and they will not be disturbed by us, and I want you to let them know.
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • E. B. White The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Bryan White There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Cassandra Clare There are not that many parts for actors who are not white - even less substantive ones.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Bryan White There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • E. B. White There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Theodore Harold White There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
    Theodore Harold White
    American political journalist and historian (1915 - 1986)
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  • William Allen White There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • Chief Seattle There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Barack Obama There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there's the United States of America.
    Speech DNC, 2004
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • E. B. White There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Billy Parish There's a big gap between 'Click the link to send an e-mail to your congressman' and 'Chain yourself to the White House.'
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Kruger There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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