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Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. — Martin Luther King Jr.

There were shades of grey, among the stark blacks and whites. — L.A. Weatherly

A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What treaties that the whites have kept, that the red man broken?
Not one.
What treaties that the white man gave to us they kept?
Not one. — Sitting Bull

At Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 30 May 1921, fifty whites and two hundred blacks were murdered. — Paul Johnson

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression. — Jesse Jackson

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write. — Red Cloud

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites. — David Duke

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. — Maya Angelou

Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites. — Gary Owen

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other. — Nick Nolte

Ah! the learning! And the fun of it? or is it the white man's burden to know more? — Aporva Kala

Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites. — Immanuel Kant

Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans. — James Meredith

Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it? — Steven D. Levitt

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides. — Warren Farrell

Divided like boys and girls at a summer camp, egg whites and yolks in grandma's lemon-meringue-pie recipe, dogs and cats in pet heaven. — Dennis Vickers

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

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man. — Colson Whitehead

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. — Peggy McIntosh

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

When it comes to cooking now, my motto is "out with the whites! — Robin Ellis

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again. — DaShanne Stokes

What we mean by integration is not to be with them (whites) but to have what they have. — Julian Bond

I eat egg whites a lot. Aside from that, I eat everything. I try to avoid too much oily food, but I do eat carbs. I have to have a balanced diet. — Genelia D'Souza

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?' — Guy Scott

People of color are actually no more likely to be guilty of drug crimes and many other offenses than whites. — Michelle Alexander

Whites have traded their culture for power. — Eileen O'Brien

Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays. — Elliott Colla

Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together. — Bernie Sanders

Visions of swastikas in my head, plans for everyone. It's in the Whites of my eyes. — David Bowie

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father. — Black Kettle

In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice. — Beverly Daniel Tatum

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler? — Josephine Baker

The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes. — Steve Coppell

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

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

I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone. — Joe Frazier

Silvestre has had the whites of the goal in his eyes ever since ... — Ian Darke

And rich white people were not so hard on Negroes; it was the poor whites who hated Negroes. — Anonymous

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it. — Charles Evers

Afterwards the members of the little war party felt fine. Torturing whites was a splendid way to spend the afternoon. — Larry McMurtry

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste. — Chief Seattle

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

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks. — Derrick Bell

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites. — John A. Powell

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites. — Chuck Close

I am for the whites because I am white; I have no other reason, and that one is good. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Pryor's comedy isn't based on suspiciousness about whites, or on anger, either; he's gone way past that. Whites are unbelievable to him. — Pauline Kael

I went cage diving in South Africa with Great Whites, and that was fun. Sweden was cool. — Peter Uihlein

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites. — Abraham Polonsky

Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them
always. — Alex Linder

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told. — Bennie Thompson

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

I like suits that are fitted. And I usually stick to grays, whites, and blacks. — Liam Hemsworth

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are. — Thomas Sowell

We are proud to say we are racist and hate to see Whites fighting each other. I oppose the Wars. — Tom Metzger

Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each other. — M.F. Moonzajer

Immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries. — Arthur Kemp

Whereas land reform was the first act of the Bolsheviks, it was the last act of the Whites: that, in a peasant country, says it all. — Orlando Figes

More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism, — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other. — Black Kettle

Some of the American whites, moreover, are just as far behind in this respect as are the Negroes who have had less opportunity to learn better. — Carter G. Woodson

I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites. — Drew Carey

Whites and Indians laughed at most of the same jokes, but they laughed for different reasons. — Sherman Alexie

Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For their abuse of [the Black African] race, the whites will be cursed, unless they repent. — Brigham Young

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely. — Ethel Waters

We never asked for racism or white supremacy but rather Whites admit that we have always been another shade of humanity. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites — Agona Apell

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right." I — Elizabeth Strout

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie. — Malcolm X

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison. — Nelson Mandela

...I never once believed what they wanted us to believe - that we as black people are inferior to whites... — Darcus Howe

A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled. — Alan Davies

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear. — Maya Angelou

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks. — Malcolm X

By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority. — Richard Benjamin

New York blacks could not vote unless they owned $250 in property (a qualification not applied to whites). — Howard Zinn

By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes! — Andrew Agnew

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things. — Nat King Cole

They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it. — Thelonious Monk

Ethnic minorities were 10 times more likely than whites to eat at a table where they were the only representative of their race. — Rebekah Nathan

Downright ridiculous legislation (such as laws specifically prohibiting blacks and whites from playing chess together). — Michelle Alexander

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low! — Israel Putnam

America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work. — Malcolm X

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

The brightening he detected in the room around him might just be the whites of dozens of eyes as they widened [upon him] — Julie Anne Long

Egg whites are full of protein." "So is jizz. You don't see me harvesting yours so I can drink a glass of it. — Helena Hunting

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

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music. — Archie Shepp

That's the way plants down here work: The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain. — Gillian Flynn

Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine. — Sara Genn

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

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

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

We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes. — Julian Bond

They aren't kidding when they say, Wash Whites separately. — Wes Smith