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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
White Man

"It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
White Man

"Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
White Man

"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."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
White Man

"Instead of working for white man and helping him hold up a government that continues to suppress us socially and, and exploit us economically and oppress us politically, let us go and enter our own territory and use our own talents to uplift ourselves by our own bootstraps. And then he will recognize us for what we are."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
White Man

"That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting these so-called middle-class values, standards, it's not that they are taking something from the white man, but they are probably identifying again with the level or standard that these same whites have gotten from them back during that period."

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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
White Man

"When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"In southern culture, possession of a gun became kind of a sign of manhood, not just because of slaves but other white men. If you had a gun, you're not going to push me around. You know, I'm not one of those guys you can kick in the face."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
White Man

"A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an interpreter, quite in the described mode,--the Indians, as usual, having the advantage in point of truth and earnestness, and therefore of eloquence. The most prominent chief was named Little Crow. They were quite dissatisfied with the white man's treatment of them, and probably have reason to be so."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature."

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Johnny Cash Musician, Singer-songwriter
White Man

"A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"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."

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