I felt sick with hatred then for my own people. If you had asked me why I hated them, I might have said that I hated them for being so loud and for being so drunk. But now I believe I hated them for suddenly being my people, not just other people. In the United States, it is very easy for me to forget that the people around me are my people. It is easy, with all our divisions, to think of myself as an outsider in my own country. I have been taught, and I have learned well, I realize now, to think of myself as distinctly different from other white folks - more educated, more articulate, less crude. But in Mexico these distinctions became as meaningless to me as they should have always been. . Eula Biss
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned.. Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation.. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Until the color of a...
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Haile Selassie
When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back
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Lee Benson
As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it–whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is,...
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Harper Lee
And Charles turned around and called back without thinking, 'You know, you're awfully lucky you boys are white.' He didn't know why he said it. It had broken out of him. He'd wanted to speak with love: that was all that he'd asked for that...
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Kaitlyn Greenidge
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
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Muhammad Ali
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One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Fear is promoted by the government as a kind of policy....
If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.
I was only going to stay six months. I stayed three years, and I never stopped thinking about leaving. But when I left, I left my entire life behind. I have to explain to you why I no longer live in New York, but first...
When I stepped onto the bridge over the Iowa River and stood looking out across the water, I knew I was home. I was wrong about that, as it turns out. And I know now that my certainty was based on a series of troubling...
I felt sick with hatred then for my own people. If you had asked me why I hated them, I might have said that I hated them for being so loud and for being so drunk. But now I believe I hated them for suddenly...
