“When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.” WarCareYoungWhiteAcceptingWeekExerciseComfortTrainingTasksPetStrokesBrushesRabbitsInitiationParachutesBrush Strokes Author:Matthew Parris
“Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.” MenWorldFeelsHelpingNationsBlackWhiteAcceptingDoubtThis WorldTasksBurdenHeavyBlack And WhiteBetter PlacePlaces To Live Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate" votes of suburban, white, middle-class, affluent males. Even liberal voters and organizations tend on some tacit level to accept the idea that they are not the "real" Americans the Democrats must pursue.” WantFeelsIdeasRealBlackWhiteLevelsAcceptingClassMiddleFemaleVoteOrganizationDemocraticDemocratMalesPursueMiddle ClassVotersElitesWorking ClassAffluentTacit Author:Ellen Willis
“The White House announced that it has rejected several petitions to legalize marijuana. They say it has nothing to do with politics. It's just that they can't accept a petition that was written on a crumpled up Funyuns bag.” HouseWhiteAcceptingWrittenBagsWhite HouseMarijuanaRejectedPetitionsLegalizing Marijuana Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.” WorldWayShouldLittlesStatesFatherBornDarkWhiteUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesGenerationsGroupsCenturyTaughtDirectBitterResentmentContinentsAcquaintanceInvitationsMy GenerationPicnicsDistasteRecoil Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.” IfsThinkingMeanBookUseBlackWhiteAcceptingUnderstoodLikesPhrasesRuling Book:Symbolic Logic: Elementary Source: Symbolic Logic: Elementary
“I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.” ThinkingWayImportantCountryWhiteCitiesAcceptingLuckySafeMalesWealthy Author:Dan Mangan
“There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it.” TodayWhiteAcceptingCriticismMalesAgreementSatireTargetTacit Author:Jack Nicholson
“More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.” PeopleThinkingHelpingMightWhiteResultsHalfAcceptingRecordsHip HopHipsHopsHelping People Author:Vanilla Ice
“You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.” PeopleKnowsNeedsMeanMightWhiteAcceptingRacismAgree Author:W. Kamau Bell