Quotes About Race

It's always illegitimate for white men to organize as white men.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'

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.

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.

It's hard for a black man to raise a family.

Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

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?'

My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.