Top 100 Quotes About The White Man
#1. You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are blind to their own indiscretions.
Violetta Botzet Luetgers
#2. I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.
Allen Sapp
#3. What we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front of the white man. Put the white man out of our meetings, number one, and then sit down and talk shop with each other. [That's] all you gotta do.
Malcolm X
#4. We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
Chief Seattle
#5. And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?
Abraham Lincoln
#6. Senator John Stennis:
The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man ... It freed my soul.
Joe Biden
#7. The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#8. Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
Bobby Fischer
#9. The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Chinua Achebe
#10. I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.
Robert E.Lee
#11. Settlers needed the land, and if the Indians hadn't learned by then that the white man's treaties were entirely worthless, Ridgeway said, they deserved what they got.
Colson Whitehead
#12. If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
Larry Elder
#13. I wondered how i would feel going into some museum and seeing the houses and stolen artifacts of my people stuck away in some exhibition hall. As i spoke i realized that most of the "history" i had been taught about the Indians was probably lies invented by the white man.
Assata Shakur
#14. My point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe ... I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#15. The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
Fanny Kemble
#16. My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#17. While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.
D.H. Lawrence
#18. The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass
#19. If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
Chief Joseph
#20. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.
Chief Seattle
#21. No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man's clothes, eats the white man's food, speaks the white man's language, and professes the white man's religion.
Booker T. Washington
#23. let them behold him scourged, hunted, trampled on, and they will come back with another story in their mouths. Let them know the heart of the poor slave - learn his secret thoughts - thoughts he dare not utter in the hearing of the white man;
Solomon Northup
#24. They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.
Tupac Shakur
#25. The Negro wants to be everything but himself ... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his own kind. The Negro wants to lose his identity because he does not know his own identity.
Elijah Muhammad
#26. My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.
Chief Joseph
#27. Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.
Malcolm X
#28. Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear ... humiliation ... misery and terror ... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.
Josephine Baker
#29. 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. We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.
Chief Seattle
#30. Every time I embrace a black woman I'm embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I'm hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death ... . I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.
Eldridge Cleaver
#31. The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.
Frantz Fanon
#32. I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave,
Khalid Abdul Muhammad
#33. The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
Ida B. Wells
#34. The white man who begins by cheating a Negro usually ends by cheating a white man. The white man who begins to break the law by lynching a Negro soon yields to the temptation to lynch a white man.
Booker T. Washington
#35. The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
Robert Mugabe
#36. There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
Mark Twain
#37. I'm not looking to wear the white man out with my ability to suffer.
Don DeLillo
#38. It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham ... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#39. Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land ... We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.
Muhammad Ali
#40. Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence.
Ronald Reagan
#41. inside the white man rages a music festival for lumberjacks.
Christian Rudder
#42. What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.
Sitting Bull
#43. [May] the olive of peace and brotherhood be embraced by the white man and the black, and their children, approached in feeling and education, gradually blend into one their blood and their hue.
Frances Wright
#44. Rachel? my dad prompts.
Do I have to...?"
His stern expression answers my question
Fine. I'm grateful that the Native Americans are finally getting revenge on the white man for destroying their culture, by building megacasinos.
Melissa Schorr
#45. Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.
Gerald Jonas
#46. The white man was created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.
Malcolm X
#47. What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been ... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it ...
Galarrwuy Yunupingu
#48. The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
Roland Joffe
#49. Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.
Penny Lernoux
#50. Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.
Carlos Mencia
#51. The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.
Red Cloud
#52. Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery ... is his natural and normal condition.
Alexander H. Stephens
#53. The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'
Malcolm X
#54. The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
Frantz Fanon
#55. In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.
Malcolm X
#56. Salle. The white man and the red man struck hands and entertained each other during three days. Then, to the admiration
Mark Twain
#57. That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions.
Malcolm X
#58. The deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man - all belong to the same family ... The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.
Chief Seattle
#59. It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.
Malcolm X
#60. The common enemy is the white man.
Malcolm X
#61. Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#62. I went to work, but the mood of the book would not die; it lingered, coloring everything I saw, heard, did. I now felt that I knew what the white man were feeling. Merely because I had read a book that had spoken of how they lived and thought, I identified myself with that book.
Richard Wright
#63. Sometimes, I have a dared dream to myself that one day, history may even say that my voice--which disturbed the white man's smugness, and his arrogance, and his complacency--that my voice helped to save America from a grave, possibly even a fatal catastrophe.
Malcolm X
#64. Oh God! Like the Thunderbird of old I
shall rise again out of the sea; I shall grab
the instruments of the white man's success
- his education, his skills, and with these
new tools I shall build my race into the
proudest segment of your society.
Chief Dan George
#65. The white man has settled like a locust over Africa, and, like the locusts in early morning, cannot take flight for the heaviness of the dew on their wings. But the dew that weights the white man is the money that he makes from our labor.
Doris Lessing
#66. Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.
Chief Seattle
#67. If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.
Malcolm X
#68. The white man knows many things," the other whispered back, "but he doesn't know how to tell a good lie.
Okey Ndibe
#69. The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her ... She is Molly.
Phillip Noyce
#70. 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.
Malcolm X
#71. though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe;
Herman Melville
#72. The white man say we're fighting for freedom from totalitarianism, terrorism and tyranny, but nobody know what he mean. I
Marlon James
#73. You keep doin' what you doin' and the white man don't got to do it no more. He ain't got to sell you or put you in a coal mine to own you. He'll own you just as is, and he'll say you the one who did it. He'll say it's your fault.
Yaa Gyasi
#74. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.
Bob Marley
#76. They are anxious to have everything the white man has even if it is harmful.
Carter G. Woodson
#77. Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
Warren G. Harding
#78. The white man gets all the best catchphrases!
Eddie Murphy
#79. A lot of people love their hate. They live to hate the people wronged them. You cain't just have one gang. That don't even make sense. If you took away the white man's black man or the black man's white man, most of 'em wouldn't even know how to walk down the street right.
Walter Mosley
#80. The Indian never hurts anything, but the white people destroy all ... How can the spirit of the earth like the white man? That is why God will upset the world - because it is sore all over. Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore.
Pretty Shield
#81. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
Malcolm X
#82. The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
Alice Walker
#83. School shootings were invented by blacks ... and stolen by the white man.
Chris Rock
#84. Thanks Giving.
The Indian and the White Man together.
The pageantry spoke to me of civilization.
Stephen Graham Jones
#85. No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#86. The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.
Chester Himes
#87. The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.
James A. Baldwin
#88. The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?
Chief Seattle
#89. Colored or not, we all work for the white man's cotton ...
James Lee Burke
#90. There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat.
Henry David Thoreau
#91. We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#92. The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and his own historic culture. His problems, sharpened by years of defeat and exploitation, neglect and inadequate effort, will take many years to overcome.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#93. Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.
Malcolm X
#94. The White Man goes into his church and talks about Jesus. The Indian goes into his tipi and talks with Jesus.
Quanah Parker
#95. The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.
Armond White
#97. What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve.
Malcolm X
#98. They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.
Malcolm X
#99. History proves that the white man is a devil.
Malcolm X
#100. It is a struggle; for though the white man of the South may be too proud to admit it, he is, nevertheless, using in the contest his best energies; he is devoting to it the greater part of his thought and much of his endeavor.
James Weldon Johnson
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