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Letter "W" » white man
«Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.»
«That was one of the things she held against missionaries: how they stressed Christ's submission to humiliation, and so had conditioned the people of Africa to humiliation by the white man»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
| Keywords:
Africa, conditioned, humiliation, stressed, submission, white man
«I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place»
Author: Sitting Bull
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desired, Great Spirit, Great White, in the first place, red man, white man
«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
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desperately, James, James Bond, licensed, paper tiger, reaffirm, reaffirmed, reaffirming, reaffirms, The Whites, triumphant, whites, white man, white paper
«I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man»
«I don't stand for the black man's side, I don't stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side»
«There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages»
«I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
brother-in-law, brother, his brother, in-law, The White, white man
«I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Discrimination,
Life,
Opinions,
Racism
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African, assurance, at ease, detest, discrimination, entitled, fellow feeling, hold in, inferior, intensely, manifestations, racial, racial discrimination, set up, South, South African, South Africans, surrounds, violently, white man
«I have supposed the black man, in his present state, might not be in body and mind equal to the white man; but it would be hazardous to affirm that, equally cultivated for a few generations, he would not become so»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Relationships
| Keywords:
affirm, cultivated, equal to, hazardous, The Black, white man
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