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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas..."

Ideas White Kansas
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strewn: Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!"

White Flower Sweet
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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. So much depends upom a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens."

White Water Rain
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Kate Chopin Author
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"The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached."

Passion White Flames
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Michelle Obama Lawyer, Author, First Lady
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"My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong."

Trying Matter White
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Richard Allen Politician
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"Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal."

People Hands White
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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
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"All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House."

House White Voting
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life."

Two White Cancer
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Lee Daniels Film Director
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"Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to."

Two America White
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June Jordan Poet, Activist
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"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."

America White Fear
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Samuel Wilson Artist
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"I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting."

White Senior Memorial
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Reggie Watts Comedian, Musician
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"I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression."

Race White Expression
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Juan Williams Journalist
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"Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas."

Cities White Rich Or Poor
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Al Green Singer, Songwriter
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"I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death."

People Giving White
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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
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"Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive."

Light White Empathy
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