My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Segregation has never been a shadowy, impossible-to-pin-down conspiracy. It's been an American way of life. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity. — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader. — Bayard Rustin 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
The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in December 1955, and by 1956 NAACP leaders came to me and asked me to be part… — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
I think everyone should - can share whatever they wish when their heart is touched and they want to spread more positivity… — Farrah Abraham Copy Share Image
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing… — John Lewis 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
“To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to… — Robin DiAngelo 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
At the end of the day, we need to realize that segregation is not the human condition at its best. Which isn't… — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
One consequence of racism and segregation is that many American whites know little or nothing about the daily lives of African Americans.… — James Forman, Jr 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
Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was… — Clark Zlotchew 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
“What neither Warren nor most of the rest of us recognized was that segregation was not, as Nirej Sekhorn put it, simply… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and… — Mel White Copy Share Image
“When the law regulates behavior it plays an indirect part in molding public sentiment. The enforcement of the law is itself a… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“If federal programs were not, even to this day, reinforcing racial isolation by disproportionately directing low-income African Americans who receive housing assistance… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other. — George Wallace Copy Share Image
“I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Segregation is a problem not just in my country but in every country. — Nuseir Yassin Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work. — Nat King Cole Copy Share Image
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race. — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
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