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I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson Mandela

Love, Political, After

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
Marcus Garvey

Together, Friends, Put

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.
Steven Biko

Human, Same, Superior

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
Marcus Garvey

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Jesse Jackson

Depression, Lazy, Unemployed

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Desmond Tutu

Nice, Humanity, Rediscover

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.
William S. Burroughs

Dreams, Care, Off

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Desmond Tutu

Nice, Humanity, Rediscover

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
Sitting Bull

Broken, Red, Kept

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

Change, Hope, Racism

As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Love, Time, Rich

I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
Gabrielle Union

Person, Point, Touch

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
Ethel Waters

Between, Difference, Decided

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
Benjamin Spock

Rude, Idea, Police

Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.
Rowan Atkinson

Home, Eyes, Quite

A man can be drawn across the room with the simplicity of a smile. That's why your pearly whites should always be straight and shiny. I think most of my clients are drawn to a fun, flirty nature in a woman. The problem is, most women do not often feel fun and flirty.
Patti Stanger

Nature, Women, Smile

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
James Weldon Johnson

Great, Romantic, Mind

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

Black, Fact, Clear

America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.
David Frum

America, Place, Vote

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.
Jeff Dunham

True, Wife, Job

I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.
Jack LaLanne

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.
Don Cheadle

Crisis, Black, Poor

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
Stokely Carmichael

Rights, Voice, Liberal

As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.
Joe Slovo

Crisis, Control, Country

I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.
Helen Suzman

Future, Country, Hopeful

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
Constance Baker Motley

Rather, Matters, Race

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
Constance Baker Motley

Group, Apart, Blacks

The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
William Weld

High, Twice, Blacks

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.
Charley Pride

Music, Another, Voice

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
August Wilson

Experience, Black, Themselves

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