John Scott Quotes

To suppose that the races of Africa are in any sense the equals of men of European descent, so far as government, as society, as the higher interests of civilization are concerned, is really, I think, an absurdity.

In every sphere the Europeans must retain the right to rule the country and to keep it a white man’s country.

Certainly let the black man have the franchise on the same terms as the white man, but while a Kaffir may make as good a Prime Minister as Lord Beaconsfield, for at least the next hundred years we shall not choose to be ruled by him.

I will see that the sons and daughters of the European colonists…have at least such an education…as will fit them to maintain their unquestioned superiority in this land.

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

The people desire to permit no equality between coloured people and white inhabitants, either in church or state.

The black knows his place, and if not, I'll tell him his place.

… we clung to the belief... that our white skin made us "better" than all other people. And this belief comforted us, for we felt worthless and weak when confronted with authorities who had cheapened nearly all we held dear, except our skin color. There, in the land of Epidermis, every one of us was a little king.

Racial differences between American whites and Asiatics will never be overcome. The superior whites have to exclude the inferior Asiatics, by law, or if necessary by force of arms.

Plans are all based on the assumption that the land belongs to the white man and that the native was designed to be the settler’s servant.

Every institution where a number of the coloured races are, or can be drawn together, shall be broken up… If we destroy, or prevent the building of the nest, we shall not be liable to the incursions of the brood.

I beg that some shadow of a colour bar, some little inequality between white and black before the law be retained.

Let me tell you this—and you may rely upon it, my dear friend—we will never again see the day when under British rule different degrees of rights and privileges will exist for different classes of His Majesty’s subjects.

The general interest both of the white man and of the negroes requires that he should be kept as near to the condition of slavery as possible’

The white race ... will be proprietors of the land, and the blacks its cultivators; such is their destiny.

This is a contest between the white man’s hope and black evil.

We are all British gentlemen engaged in the magnificent work of governing an inferior race.

These barbarities [American lynchings] have found many apologists, on the ground that the negroes are licentious and dishonest--as, indeed, many of them are. But who set them the example, and educated them in these vices? In too many cases the white population, and even their legal authorities.

It is not right that a servile race should inhabit the same locality which their ancestors inhabited in power and glory.

There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs shall bow down and become its servants.

The white man believes in equality, but apparently believes the white man is more equal than the Indian.

Whites don’t like to see the nigger with too much … White people was afraid that money will make the nigger act like his own man.

The black world squirms beneath the feet of the white in impotent fury or sullen hate.

We have a full right, by our own best wisdom, and then even by compulsion to dictate terms and conditions to them [Native Americans] .... The Indian must be made to feel he is in the grasp of a superior.

[T]he agents are white Southerners who have been influenced by the mores of the community. To maintain their status, they have to be friendly with the local police and people who have been promoting segregation.