Social & Racial Sayings

I don’t give a damn about your white supremacy.

That the Negroes were enslaved more than other races, and on a large scale, is evidently a result of their being, in contrast to other races, less intelligent.

In a battle like Ireland's, which is one of poverty against wealth, we must prove our sincerity by making ourselves unpopular to wealth. We must accept the baptism of the gutter.

I consider science to be an integral part of our endeavour to answer the one great philosophical question which embraces all others, the one that has puzzled man from earliest times: Who are we? What are we?

The atomic bomb is a weapon for aggressors, and the atomic bomb is a weapon of terror. It is not a defensive weapon. It is not a weapon of precision. It is a weapon for killing people. And its whole history has been one of killing people in a very in…

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows others the way. Freedom and slavery are states of mind.

It is Our wish that Our people, without distinction of class or calling, should all be loyal to the Imperial House and zealous in the discharge of their duties.

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.

I am a man, no doubt. But I am also a woman. I am a white woman. I am a white woman who lives in a white society. I am a white woman who is a feminist. I am a white woman who is a mother. I am a white woman who is a writer. I am all of these things, …

I don't mind being called a Tom, because I am a Tom. I'm a Tom for my race. I'm a Tom for my people. I'm a Tom for my good old United States of America.

I went to Africa. 'Cause I wanted to find out where I came from. And you know what I found out? I'm from a long line of slaves. I didn't find no kings and queens. I found a bunch of people living in huts with no doors. And I said, 'No wonder y'all go…

But in any country a few offenders must always be expected, and if some men are found transgressing the proclamation that has been promulgated, all the foreign envoys know that We have punished them even with the death penalty. Therefore, Our conscie…

To multiply the harms of Poverty, want and crime, is to be poor, to be wanting and criminal. To suffer with the suffering, to be poor with the poor, to be sick with the sick, to be criminal with the criminal, is to be rich in sympathy and in that whi…