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«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
«Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, rediscovers, whites
«Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.»
«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.»
Author: Eldridge Cleaver
| Keywords:
Muslims, racism, repudiate, repudiated, repudiates, Repudiating, whites
«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
«Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at [Pearl Harbor's] officers' mess [and] are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.»
Author: William Manchester
(Historian, Novelist)
| Keywords:
dress whites, frequent, guests, harbor, Japanese, officers, pearl, Pearl Harbor, polite, whites
«Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal»
Author: Benjamin Spock
(Author, Pediatrician)
| Keywords:
belligerent, brutal, class feeling, middle class, routinely, rude, subjected, suspicious, 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
«I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. 'Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2.'»
Author: Ellen DeGeneres
(Actress, Comedian)
| About:
Yoga
| Keywords:
align, aligned, amazing, Bright Eyes, cleared, in full, keep an eye on, lotus, lotus position, Mama, shatter, shattering, shatters, sit in, sunlight, supposed, The Magic, third eye, whites, yoga
«By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes»
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