[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who… — Roger Wilkins Copy Share Image
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to… — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
Contact is the best medicine against hate, racism and prejudice. It's something that we should be very wary of, the more segregation… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern,… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
There is a lot of gender segregation. You still have many poor women who work in women-only jobs. In the family, in… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
There shouldn't be a segregation of women over a size 16, it should just be all women who want to wear beautiful clothes. — Jameela Jamil Copy Share Image
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
People of my generation knew we needed to move beyond that, the racial division and segregation and unsustainable social relations, that were… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896,… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
There's a lot of bad consequences that flow from segregation. The kids don't do as well. We live separately. We don't learn… — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
“Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero,… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I am not naive, and I do realize that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I am… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
“The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“Many Southern communities developed two school systems: an underfunded public system mostly attended by black students, and private schools set up for… — Kristen Green Copy Share Image
I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried… — Constance Backhouse Copy Share Image
We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I can't escape the image that others have created for me, but if I don't try, I will never know if… — Julian Houston Copy Share Image
There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty? — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
My mother grew up in South Carolina. This was the 1940s and early '50s. Segregation was still legal. Separate bathrooms. All of… — Dawn Staley Copy Share Image
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
MLK, Jr. taught me how to say no to segregation, and I can hear him saying now... when you straighten up your… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they do not know each other; they… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York,… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
“Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals- for… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
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