I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run. — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free. — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
There should be no segregation. Everyone should be united, and everyone should be seen as equals. — Ellie Bamber Copy Share Image
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish. — Maisie Williams Copy Share Image
“$1,200, That was the price of a man in those days. Now you can call him black, or you can call him… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
I think everyone should - can share whatever they wish when their heart is touched and they want to spread more positivity… — Farrah Abraham Copy Share Image
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things… — Bruce Hornsby Copy Share Image
White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity - or he never sought the opportunity I should say - to work closely with African… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar… — Greg Erwin Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, we need to realize that segregation is not the human condition at its best. Which isn't… — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“Unwed white girls who became pregnant in the postwar years were considered psychologically disturbed but treatable, whereas their black counterparts were presumed… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Here is a foundation for understanding today what was clear to only a few fifty years earlier. Now we can see how… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“It may sound exaggerated to say that the clash of civilizations and cultures as what we're witnessing in Europe between muslims and… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
“Hug everyone, love everyone - that's the only tradition that can stop the fall of humankind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it. — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe. — Myrlie Evers-Williams Copy Share Image
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