White Saviors Quotes

“You can't teach at our school if you don’t live in the compound. It was like some kind of prison-work farm for our liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviors.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Africa was always waiting, a substrate for the white man's will, a backdrop for his activities...I was primed to see a white man, a nobody in his own country, who thought, as usual, that the salvation of Africa was up to him.”
― Teju Cole, Open City

“Any charity that does not have a core mission to empower the communities they are serving is problematic.”
― Nova Reid