Slavery was legal. Japanese interment was legal in this…

My mother grew up in South Carolina. This was the 1940s and early '50s. Segregation was still legal. Separate bathrooms. All of it.

— Dawn Staley

Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no…

— John Dewey

“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?” “No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal…

— Assata Shakur

In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South,…

— Sanjay Rawal

“What neither Warren nor most of the rest of us recognized was that segregation was not, as Nirej Sekhorn put it, simply a "taint"…

— Derrick Bell

South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black…

— Tariq Ramadan

In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime,…

— June Jordan

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though…

— Kathryn Stockett

Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segregated. You…

— Deborah Meier

It happens a lot every four years, or it used to, every time the Paralympics comes around. They'll be like: 'We've had this idea…

— Chris McCausland

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery…

— David Oyelowo

It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the bad old…

— Constance Backhouse

I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass.…

— Lydia Lunch

I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King.

— Charles Bradley

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

— Susan Jacoby