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Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!
Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.
Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.
Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!
I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it
We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear.
There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.
The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.
The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.
White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.
The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.
In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.
No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.
The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.
In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.
I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him.
It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.
The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.
When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.
If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.
I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.
What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.
However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated/targeted for those shootings - even though most come at the hands of white dudes.
White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.
This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house.
What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?
In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.
Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.
White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.
Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.
I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.