“The wounding legacy of segregation and growing up knowing adults who had worked for civil rights and equal opportunities for African Americans… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and… — James Frey Copy Share Image
There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there… — Diane Nash 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
Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity - or he never sought the opportunity I should say - to work closely with African… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants. — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation… — George C. Wallace Copy Share Image
The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that. — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Back when they supported segregation, Lott and Thurmond were Democrats. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There should be no segregation. Everyone should be united, and everyone should be seen as equals. — Ellie Bamber Copy Share Image
“[Clyde Ross] was stationed in California. He found that he could go into stores without being bothered. He could walk the streets… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
“UNDIVIDED I am for One world undivided. One world without fear and corruption. One world ruled by Truth and Justice. I am… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image