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Letter "T" » The Whites
«I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.»
Author: Alan Paton
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Fear,
Heart
| Keywords:
Africa, blacks, Great Fear, Great White, hating, South, South Africa, The Blacks, The Whites, whites
«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.»
Author: Anatol Rapoport
| About:
Chess,
Play
| Keywords:
blacks, champion, chess, chess piece, chess player, common interest, The Blacks, The Whites, whites
«Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.»
«It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power»
Author: Robert Mugabe
| Keywords:
blacks, justification, oppress, oppressed, The Blacks, The Whites, whites
«I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
abolition, abolition of slavery, almost all, civil, civil rights, complaining, confess, deprived, deprived of, Enemy of the state, equals, freeman, freemen, Negroes, obliged, races, raised, revolt, show off, southern, Southern states, speedily, The Whites, warding, ward off, whites
«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.»
Author: Eldridge Cleaver
| Keywords:
desperately, James, James Bond, licensed, paper tiger, reaffirm, reaffirmed, reaffirming, reaffirms, The Whites, triumphant, whites, white man, white paper
«When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| About:
Unemployment
| Keywords:
depression, The Whites, unemployed, whites
«The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
Care of, cutting off, cut off, familiar, familiar spirit, Indians, killing, kill off, spirits, The Whites, To Kill a, whites
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