Today’s residential segregation in the North, South…

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

It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as…

— Thurgood Marshall

In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than…

— Michelle Alexander

One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich…

— J. D. Vance

“One of the most commonly used American history textbooks is The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century. A thousand-page volume, published by Holt McDougal,…

— Richard Rothstein

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

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

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

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

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