There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants. — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
I did nothing worse than Lyndon Johnson. He was for segregation when he thought he had to be. I was for segregation,… — George Wallace Copy Share Image
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation? — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I think everyone should understand history of segregation the same way we had to go to school and read about George Washington.… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level… — David Lack Copy Share Image
I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard… — Jesse White Copy Share Image
My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
I vividly remember segregation - separate schools, sitting in the balcony at the movie theater, being barred from the public swimming pool. — David Steward Copy Share Image
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
To define each other according to our superficial characteristics and then divide us and hire us and then separate us is nothing… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society. — MC Ren Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation.… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
“...the great tragedy of segregation isn't so much that we see less of each other but that in separating from each other… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“So you’re the infamous Manal al-Sharif,” he said, eyeing me from behind his desk. “Aren’t you ashamed of what you did?” “Is… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
