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"My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man's struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. “I've had enough of someone else's propaganda,” I had written to these friends. “I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” The American white man's press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn't deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black man's problem. white man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn't demonstrating non-violence." »malcolm X, Autobiography of malcolm x
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"Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If everything isn't black and white, I say, “Why the hell not?" »John Wayne
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"Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black." »Danish proverb
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"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." »Deng Xiaoping
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"When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray." »Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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"If you see an animal and you can't tell if it's a skunk or a cat, here's a good saying to help 'Black-and-white, stinks all right. Tabby-colored, likes a fella.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent." »H. P. Lovecraft, The White Ship
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"Both white and black acknowledge women?s sway, So much the better and the wiser too, Deeming it most convenient to obey, Or possibly they might their folly rue.*" »Persian
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"I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth." »Marcel Marceau
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"We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white." »Eric Hoffer
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"The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else." »Eric Hoffer
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"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people." »Hair
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"Nigel It's like, how much more black could this be and the answer is none. None more black." »This Is Spinal Tap
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"In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the white House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the white House tells us." »Connie Chung to Johnny Carson
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"When they kept you out it was because you were black when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress" »Marilyn French
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"Away back in that time-in 1492-there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me." »Chitto Harjo
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"What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world the sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today Who slew them Where are our lands Who owns them....What law have I broken Is it wrong for me to love my own Is it wicked for me because my skin is red Because I am a Sioux because I was born where my father lived because I would die for my people and my country" »Sitting Bull
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"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the white Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'" »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"black to black" »Dianna and Karen
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"Little Girl No thanks, I take it black, like my men." »Airplane
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"The pot calls the kettle black." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"black holes are where God divided by zero." »Stephen Wright
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"Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black." »Kelly Robinson
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"A black sheep in the family, no doubt" »John Wayne
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"I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black." »Auguste Renoir
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