Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races. — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity. — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
Segregation has never been a shadowy, impossible-to-pin-down conspiracy. It's been an American way of life. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We… — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in December 1955, and by 1956 NAACP leaders came to me and asked me to be part… — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation,… — John Deacon Copy Share Image
Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
“Anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
By explaining the difference between segregation and separation. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
“Believers usually only have fellowship with those in their own church or group. This segregation is divisive. Intentional actions are needed to… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
“History reveals that the seeds of the new system of control were planted well before the end of the Civil Rights Movement.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“time proved that the persistent educational gap between black and white students was only indirectly traceable to segregation. Instead, the root of… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. I… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“If government had declined to build racially separate public housing in cities where segregation hadn’t previously taken root, and instead had scattered… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and… — Mel White Copy Share Image
“What neither Warren nor most of the rest of us recognized was that segregation was not, as Nirej Sekhorn put it, simply… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader. — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
“researchers should realize that many people—not just whites—prefer segregation.” — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work. — Nat King Cole Copy Share Image
I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other. — George Wallace Copy Share Image
“I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Segregation is a problem not just in my country but in every country. — Nuseir Yassin Copy Share Image
