Uncle Tom Quotes:

I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.

- Jalen Rose

source: FaceBook post by Jalen Rose from Mar 09, 2011

topic: Uncles, Player, Black, Uncle Tom

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.167, Harriet Beecher Stowe

topic: Mean, Glasses, People, Glass Houses, Throwing Stones

For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke. And I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms.

- Jalen Rose

source: "Grant Hill’s Misfire" by Jonathan Weiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

topic: Uncles, School, Player, Recruit, Uncle Tom

Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and well-educated. He's often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro -by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man.

- Malcolm X

topic: Uncles, Mean, Men, Handkerchiefs, Reverends

I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount of blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals. Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don't fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America. Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.

- Juan Williams

source: "Rutgers rage against Rice -- why do liberals have so much hate for black conservatives?" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2014.

topic: Education, Uncles, Race, Supreme Court Justice, Court Justice

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Quoted in McClure's Magazine, Apr. 1911.

topic: War, Women, Book, Little Women, Uncle Tom

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

topic: Morning, Optimistic, Night, Funny Good Morning, Hurrying

I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

- Norm MacDonald

topic: Religious, Thinking, Political Opinions, Uncle Tom

You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear a handkerchief anymore. They wear top hats. They're called Doctor, they're called - Reverend, but they're still - they play the same role today that Uncle Tom played on the plantation.

- Malcolm X

topic: Uncles, Doctors, Class, Upper Class, Handkerchiefs

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (2001). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.265, Applewood Books

topic: Selfish, Men, Church, Uncle Tom

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.283, Harriet Beecher Stowe

topic: Missing, Ophelia, Said, Uncle Tom

There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

topic: Spring, Blessed, Flower, Uncle Tom

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

topic: Real, Heart, People, Uncle Tom

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (2001). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.125, Applewood Books

topic: Human Nature, Inconsistent, Humans, Uncle Tom

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

topic: Doubt, Faces, Firsts, Uncle Tom

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

topic: Uncles, Inspiration, Writing, Dictation, Uncle Tom

Among liberals and Democrats, there is this notion that the poor - especially the black poor - can do no wrong. If you criticize any poor and black person who displays inappropriate, boorish or egregiously bad conduct, you'll be dismissed as a racist if you're not black. And as an Uncle Tom or sellout if you are.

- Gregory Kane

topic: Uncles, Black, Racist, Uncle Tom

I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.

- Clarence Thomas

topic: Uncles, Years, Complaining, Uncle Tom

Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.

- Sophy Burnham

topic: Uncles, Children, Book, Mending, Uncle Tom

[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Source: www.theatlantic.com

topic: Dog, Uncles, Men, Toms, Uncle Tom

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

- Carl Clinton Van Doren

topic: Uncles, Years, Limits, Uncle Tom

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

topic: Uncles, Writing, Being Thankful, Uncle Tom

What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom,' " Aunt Dahlia said a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo.

- P. G. Wodehouse

topic: Uncles, Aunt, Talking, Banjos, Dahlias

Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

- Malcolm X

source: "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, p. 375, 1965.

topic: Christian, Atheist, Buddhist, Extremism, Uncle Tom

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

- Tony Kushner

topic: Uncles, Drama, Heart, Social Policy, Kramer

However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of a single book, Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Even today, any black who dares to say that perhaps we are not as badly off as our brethren in the jungles of Africa is hooted down as an "Uncle Tom." [...] It was no accident that Harriet Beecher Stowe's book became the greatest best seller of its time - it was tirelessly promoted throughout the entire nation, in the most successful book promotion campaign in our history.

- Eustace Mullins

topic: Uncles, War, Book, Best Sellers, Uncle Tom

At this point I feel like I could go out and accomplish anything. I'd just love to see Will Smith's face if he found out I, Z-Braff, have the number one rap album in the country. That'd show that no-talent uncle tom.

- Zach Braff

topic: Country, Uncles, Rap, Uncle Tom

They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.

- J. C. Watts

topic: Uncles, Thinking, Race, Uncle Tom

Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell you, in case you don't know it, that you got a new - you got a new generation of black people in this country, who don't care anything whatsoever about odds. They don't want to hear you old Uncle Tom handkerchief heads talking about the odds.

- Malcolm X

source: Source: historynewsnetwork.org

topic: Country, Uncles, Odds, Handkerchiefs, Afros

I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.

- Jill Stein

source: Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

topic: Uncles, Use, Language, Uncle Tom

In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong.

- Michael Ruse

source: "Adam and Eve Didn’t Exist. Get Over It!" by Michael Ruse, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

topic: Uncles, Saint, Fiction, Saint Paul, Uncle Tom

Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day.

- Malcolm X

source: Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

topic: Religious, Uncles, Kings, Bloodhounds, Uncle Tom

If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you see how the white man today has changed his tactics, but he still occupies the same position, in that same context you find Uncle Tom. He has changed his tactics but he still occupies the same position.

- Malcolm X

topic: Uncles, Men, White Man, Plantations, Uncle Tom

The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter. But he's teaching the black people to suffer peacefully, patiently, until the white man makes up his mind that you're a human being the same as he.

- Malcolm X

topic: Uncles, Teaching, Men, Proclamation, Emancipation Proclamation

[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

- Don Herold

topic: Dog, Art, Uncles, Uncle Tom

Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

source: Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

topic: Uncles, Writing, Achievement, Quiet Room, Uncle Tom

Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

- Miles Davis

topic: Uncles, Jazz, Selling, Uncle Tom

My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.

- L. Neil Smith

source: "Merchants of Fear". Speech to the Boulder County Libertarian Party, www.lneilsmith.org. February 20, 1994.

topic: Uncles, War, Cabins, Toms, Uncle Tom

I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.

- Walker Percy

topic: Uncles, Writing, Wind, Picturesque, Uncle Tom

Harriet Beecher Stowe thought Uncle Tom's Cabin was written through her by Another Hand, so little did she know what was going to happen from moment to moment in the book. She herself was amazed at what she was writing.

- Sophy Burnham

source: Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.18, Penguin

topic: Uncles, Book, Writing, Uncle Tom