"I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white."
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"When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too...I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it."
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"Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For the first time Bolivia is becoming democratic. So it's therefore bitterly hated by the West, which despises democracy, because it's much too dangerous."
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"Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to the white South Africans that the end is coming. They can't just hope to subdue the continent on racist grounds."
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"First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager."
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"What if history was changed? slavery reversed Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?"
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"One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely."
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"I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power which changes behavior and transmutes antipathy into sympathy."
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"A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!"
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"The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame."
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"Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears."
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"It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy."
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"Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power."
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"Just washed, How chill The white leeks!"
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"I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle."
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"I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white."
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"You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves."
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"When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?"
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"I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair."
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"King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer."
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