Harold Cardinal Quotes

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

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

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

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world by thus fostering human slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of human freedom.

There's so much stuff in America that is very shameful. It's stuff that I can't endorse, but I still perform there.

It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?

It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

It is impossible for white men to live with the coloured races without adopting a conviction that…they have the right to command the services of the less civilized.

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’

Cannibals are not vegetarians; they too are humanitarians.

Resolved, that the Government of the United States, the nation with its institutions, of right belong to the white men who now possess them.

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.

America is yours [Whites] today because of crime and violence.

What's going to be a hundred years from now ain't much account to us.... The whites has the lands and the sense, an' the blacks has nothin' but their freedom, an' it's jest like a dream to them.

Too many whites are getting away with drug use...Too many whites are getting away with drug sales...The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.

The [Civil] war has taught this people [Southern whites[ only that the physical force of the nation cannot be resisted. They will be obedient to the letter of the law, perhaps, but the whole current of their lives flows in direct antagonism to its spirit..

The central question is … whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally in which it does not predominate numerically. The sobering answer is Yes. The white community is so entitled because, for the time being, they are the more advanced race.

Principally, I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartedly love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth …

As long as you are in that white privilege bubble, you don't need to see the world differently. You don't need to see the world through the eyes of minorities or women.

I think the fact that my case was so sensationalized is because I am a white woman.

I'm just an innocent guy with a dirty mouth, I guess.