But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up. — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
“one wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes… — Garrance Franke-Ruta Copy Share Image
“From the 1930s through the 1960s, black people across the country were largely cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market through means… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races. — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I can't escape the image that others have created for me, but if I don't try, I will never know if… — Julian Houston Copy Share Image
“By the turn of the twentieth century, every state in the South had laws on the books that disenfranchised blacks and discriminated… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who… — Roger Wilkins Copy Share Image
To define each other according to our superficial characteristics and then divide us and hire us and then separate us is nothing… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with 'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food… — Patricia Stephens Due Copy Share Image
Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Jesse Owen was bigger than a black hero, he was an American hero. For me, I looked at it from that perspective.… — Stephan James Copy Share Image
Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all. — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
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