Quotes with whites

  • As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
  • In those days, affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.
  • Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.

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  • Assata Shakur People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the whites only signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Black Kettle All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • August Wilson As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • August Wilson Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Bennie Thompson If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bill Moyers In those days, affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.
    Help, speech to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, 3 March 2007, Moyers on Democracy
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Abraham Polonsky Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
    Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • John Betjeman Keep our Empire undismembered guide our Forces by Thy Hand, gallant blacks from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland; protect them Lord in all their fights, and even more, protect the whites.
    John Betjeman
    English poet, writer, and broadcaster (1906 - 1984)
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  • Benjamin Watson Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Anatole Rapoport One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
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  • Eldridge Cleaver The ''paper tiger'' hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Ben Shapiro The vast majority of murdered whites are murdered by other whites. That's why there's no national outrage when a white person is killed by a black person: it's not evidence of some underlying black violence problem directed against white people.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Aberjhani The way out of the maze of whiteness and blackness that led inevitably, repeatedly, to violent conflict was through the simple recognition of and respect for blacks and whites as not two races but one: the human race.
    The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)
    Aberjhani
    American historian, columnist and novelist (1957 - )
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  • Stokely Carmichael There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
    What we want (1966)
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Black Kettle We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Bernie Sanders Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Jesse Jackson When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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