Roland Joffe Quotes

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

History proves that the white man is a devil.

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

Slavery was once a tradition. Killing Indians like animals was once a tradition.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian.

No one who knew the true nature of the Indian felt any regret that they were driven off their hunting grounds. This attitude was found wherever the Whites came in conflict with them and explains why they were scarcely regarded as human beings.

It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practiced discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us.

White people scare the crap out of me.

American Indian and Alaska Native people suffer from unacceptable and disproportionately high levels of violence, which can have lasting impacts on families and communities.

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

Our party [Zanu-PF] must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy.

It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.

I'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.