Quotation
Quote by Roberto Landell de Moura
O homem que pretendíamos homenagear — apesar de ser de cor preta — é digno dessa e das maiores honrarias.
Explore the idea
Understanding this quote
The sentence says the man deserves the honor and even greater recognition. The phrase “despite being Black” exposes a racist assumption that his race might count against him, then rejects that assumption by affirming his worth. The praise is clear, but the wording also reveals prejudice in the speaker’s view of Black identity.
Source & trust
About this quotation
- Source
- PUCRS doctoral thesis, citing Anais da Câmara de Vereadores de Porto Alegre, 11 September 1959, p. 87
- Format
- Article
Explore the idea
Topics
Conversation
0 comments
No comments yet.
Start the conversation about this quote.
“For your own sakes, never appear ashamed that your father was a kaffir (Black man), and that you inherited African blood. It is every bit as good as that which flows in the veins of my fairer brethren.”
“I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.”
“A human rights activist has to be stubborn… it’s not your dignity, [you’re] fighting for other’s dignity.”
“I think that life where you don’t have dignity and where you don’t fight for people’s dignity is a wasted life.”
“South Africa was a strange place. Everyone was totally oblivious to the need to express the plight of the black people.”
“There can be no return to apartheid.”
Read quote“I suppose I must call myself a slave for I am the colour of those of whom you made slaves.”
“I admired the dignified and courageous approach that the Greens had to politics.”
“In Paris…no one regards me curiously. I am simply “M. Tanner, an American artist.””
“A nation is not only a matter of race or the color of skin.”
The Dictionary of Useful Words
When a confusing notice threatens to move a carpenter’s workshop, a library aide and a teenage volunteer learn that precise questions can protect pride as surely as any answer.
Read Story