“Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.” MenYearsHas BeensCountryWholeLyingBlackWhiteClearFourAirNeededHundredFilledNakedAtmosphereWhite ManClicheMirages Author:Alex Haley
“This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.” MenYearsThreeWhiteHundredTake TimeWhite ManIt Takes Time Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not willing to sit around and wait for five years to get this problem solved, much less a hundred years.” PeopleThinkingMenNeedsYearsProblemTodayAmericaWaitingBlackRealizingWhiteFiveWillingHundredFive YearsBlack PeopleWhite Man Author:Malcolm X
“The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.” PeopleMenYearsHas BeensHandsAmericaTurnsBlackWhiteFourViolenceHundredVictimFollowingIgnorantBlack PeopleCheeksPreacherWhite ManBrutesGodlikeTurn The Other Cheek Author:Malcolm X
“A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing.” MenYearsStillsUseTodayUsedWhiteTakenDogHundredYears AgoPoliceUniformsSheetsWhite ManBloodhounds Author:Malcolm X
“Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.” MenGivingYearsGoalChanceWhiteFourKingsHundredRestaurantsDrsWhite ManLutherDr Martin Luther King Author:Malcolm X
“Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWritingPersonsWantedBlackWhiteEqualRacismHundredWesternWoundsJournalismBlack PeopleWhite ManPeppers Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie