#whites

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#bravery #certain #certain point #chivalry #frame

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father. ↗

— Black Kettle

#father #hand #hold #our #our father

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side. ↗

— Silvan Shalom

#apartheid #belong #berlin #between #blacks

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#involved #music #themselves #traditional #whites

As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#being #control #country #crisis #however

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#barrier #blacks #currently #important #irreversible

I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic. ↗

— Helen Suzman

#am #any #country #entirely #future

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#i think #involved #matters #race #rather

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power. ↗

— Franz Rosenzweig

#customs #death #europe #language #law

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is. ↗

— Dizzy Gillespie

#because #been #blacks #doing #history