There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“Taft ended his opinion with an added clause, a statement so bold that it would rattle even his strongest supporters. The chief… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
I remember being told by my parents when I was 4 that I couldn't go to an amusement park advertised on TV… — Clarence Page Copy Share Image
There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country. — Robert Dallek 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
In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“Here is a foundation for understanding today what was clear to only a few fifty years earlier. Now we can see how… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our courts' decisions do not permeate the public consciousness - we have no equivalent of the Brown v Board of Education ruling… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
“When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think of water hoses, lynchings,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
“I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished… — Florence King Copy Share Image
What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
