America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay…

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

“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

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

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

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

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

Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying…

— Martin Luther King, Jr