Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures…

Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the beginning of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

In the segregated South, education was almost like armor. It was a way to put yourself in a category where even with the slings…

— Condoleezza Rice

Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able to do…

— Marian Wright Edelman

There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants.

— Claudette Colvin

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You…

— Shelby Foote

“Today’s residential segregation in the North, South, Midwest, and West is not the unintended consequence of individual choices and of otherwise well-meaning law or…

— Richard Rothstein

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated…

— Anna Deavere Smith

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

Most new prison construction has occurred in predominately white, rural communities, and thus a new and bizarre form of segregation has emerged in recent…

— Michelle Alexander

To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization. g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated…

— Margaret Sanger

I come up in a segregated 1943 atmosphere of segregation.

— Bill Duke

Cincinnati like so many other cities, we know that so many of our schools, when it comes to public schools, are still de facto…

— Cornel West

I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have…

— Marian Wright Edelman

“From the 1930s through the 1960s, black people across the country were largely cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market through means both legal…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates