| "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 |
| "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." »James Arthur Baldwin |
| "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one" »Abraham Lincoln |
| "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 |
| "My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "As long as I'm faced in the right direction, It does not matter the size of my steps." »Unknown |
| "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again." »Maya Angelou |
| "The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television." »Unknown |
| "To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it fears must be faced." »James Arthur Baldwin |
| "We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." »John W. Gardner |
| "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 |
| "My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage." »Peggy Noonan |
| "When you come to the end of everything you know And are faced with the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on, Or you will be taught how to fly." »Barbara J. Winter |
| "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. |
| "Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "It is not white hair that engenders wisdom." »Menander |
| "A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb |
| "Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black." »Danish proverb |
| "The White House is the finest prison in the world." »Harry S Truman |
| "There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack." »Steven Runciman |
| "The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches." »e e cummings |
| "Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind." »Austin O'Malley |
| "I turned into the helicopter ... the red carpet was rolled up. ... The White House was behind us now." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." »Deng Xiaoping |
| "You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt." »Ed Meese |
| "There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see." »Nat Burton |
| "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 |
| "I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark." »Dick Gregory |
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