“Two men dressed in white jeans with white caps on their heads.... climbing over a large sign of white letters. Of course, the words spell something, but that is unimportant. What is important is their white, and the white of the letters.”

— Mark Tobey

1950's, In: Reminiscence and Reverie, 1951

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American abstract expressionist painter 1890–1976

Franz Kline (1910–1962) American painter

1950's, Conversations With Artists, 1957

“This is a Government of white men, made by white men for white men, to be administered, protected, defended, and maintained by white men.”

Chilton A. White (1826–1900) American politician

Forrest G. Wood, Black Scare: The Racist Response to Emancipation and Reconstruction (1968), p. 43; citing CG, 37 Cong., 3 Sess. (Feb. 2-5, 1863), pp. 680-690, and Appendix (Feb. 2, 1863), p. 93; White, "Speech".

“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.”

Tiger Woods (1975) American professional golfer

“See the fear and terror as black men run. White is right in the white man’s world, on the big white screen.”

Robert Banks (1966) American filmmaker

MPG: Motion Picture Genocide

“White for light. White for love. White for forever.”

Melissa de la Cruz book Masquerade

Source: Masquerade

“I hold that a Negro is not and never ought to be a citizen of the United States. I hold that this government was made on the white basis; made by the white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and should be administered by white men and none others.”

Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861) American politician

In 1858 http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2008/06/democrats-held-these-words-to-be-self.html
1850s

“The white woman must cohabit with members of the dark races, white men with black women. Thus the white race will disappear, for the mixing of the dark with white means the end of the white man, and our most dangerous enemy will become only a memory.”

Nahum Rabinovitch (1928–2020) Israeli rabbi

originally attributed in 1952 to an "Emanuel" Rabinovitch, who appears to be a fictional creation of Eustace Mullins
Misattributed

“What country is there for a white man who isn't white?”

Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer

"Algren once asked", quoted by Richard Flanagan, 2005.
Nonfiction works

“I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.”

Maxine Waters (1938) U.S. Representative from California

Remarks about the police beating of Donovan Chavis, quoted in CNN.com (10 July 2002) " FBI probing videotaped beating http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/07/09/police.beating/index.html"

“Hell will freeze over before any other flags fly in Gibraltar that are not our flags. Red, white and blue. Red, white and proud. Red, white and free!”

Fabian Picardo (1972) Gibraltarian politician and barrister

[11 September 2013, We will never concede one drop of our waters to Spain, pledged Picardo on Gibraltar Day, http://en.mercopress.com/2013/09/11/we-will-never-concede-one-drop-of-our-waters-to-spain-pledged-picardo-on-gibraltar-day, MercoPress, 22 March 2014]
Speech to crowds in Casemates Square on Gibraltar National Day 2015.
2013

“Two men dressed in white jeans with white caps on their heads.... climbing over a large sign of white letters. Of course, the words spell something, but that is unimportant. What is important is their white, and the white of the letters.”

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