White Power Quotes

“Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Let us be dissatisfied until that day when nobody will shout "White Power!" — when nobody will shout "Black Power!" — but everybody will talk about God's power and human power.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Their cruelty made them feel good, it made them feel proud, it made them feel happy. And it made them feel closer to one another…Their shared laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to one another, and to Trump.”
― Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America

“The artifacts that persist in my memory are the photographs of lynchings. But it’s not the burned, mutilated bodies that stick with me. It’s the faces of the white men in the crowd. There’s the photo of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Indiana in 1930, in which a white man can be seen grinning at the camera as he tenderly holds the hand of his wife or girlfriend.”
― Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America

“White colour is a symbol of peace, not White power.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Multiracial whiteness reflects an understanding of whiteness as a political color and not simply a racial identity — a discriminatory worldview in which feelings of freedom and belonging are produced through the persecution and dehumanization of others.

(1/15/2021 in Washington Post)”
― Cristina Beltrán

“The cruelty is the point”
― Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America