Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial… — Randy Sandke Copy Share Image
“UNDIVIDED I am for One world undivided. One world without fear and corruption. One world ruled by Truth and Justice. I am… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The persistence of housing discrimination and housing segregation makes it difficult at times to integrate schools. So what flows from that is… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
Everybody has the right to marry the person they love and be represented as a couple and family... It's something that people… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
“From the 1930s through the 1960s, black people across the country were largely cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market through means… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
This idea of walls, segregation, labels, and 'You against us' and 'We are superior and you are inferior.' Which people are legitimate?… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
“If we look at all metropolitan areas, rather than just the large ones, Durham–Chapel Hill, Bloomington, and Ann Arbor—all college towns—climb into… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I fell in love with it. Walking around just feels so cinematic. I find the aris- tocratic parts of London so unattractive… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
You have to be a whole, dignified, self-respecting person in order to be an English teacher or whatever kind of job your… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
“Since the white man's personality is greatly distorted by segregation, and his soul is greatly scarred, he needs the love of the… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Just like Supreme Court justices, we as a nation have avoided contemplating remedies because we’ve indulged in the comfortable delusion that our… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
“In America, music was the first sphere of social interaction in which racial barriers were challenged and overturned. And the challenge went… — Ted Gioia Copy Share Image
The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. These discriminatory… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools,… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly… — Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Copy Share Image
“It shames me to admit that in the white-defined society in which I was raised, blacks were considered merely background. This was… — Jonathan Odell Copy Share Image
Housing is where it all begins. Where you live determines everything from where you shop for food, to how safe your neighborhood… — Solly Granatstein Copy Share Image
I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time,… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
C'mon everybody, yeah, this is your life I'm talking about a revolution we gotta organize We don't need no segregation, we don't… — Prince Copy Share Image
It happens a lot every four years, or it used to, every time the Paralympics comes around. They'll be like: 'We've had… — Chris McCausland Copy Share Image
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
![“I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, "If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on." I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.” quote by Nikki Giovanni](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/82d/nikki-giovanni-1757_black_i-am-of-the-generation-of-segregation-bl_3088547.jpg)
