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
My mother grew up in South Carolina. This was the 1940s and early '50s. Segregation was still legal. Separate bathrooms. All of… — Dawn Staley Copy Share Image
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I am not naive, and I do realize that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I am… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
My parents were 30 years older than I was, and my parents had my brother and I ten years apart. My parents… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
“So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn’t nobody left except a real dark little girl… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York,… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they do not know each other; they… — Martin Luther King Jr 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
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with… — Walter Dean Myers 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
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
In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals- for… — Malcolm X 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
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
Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard… — Jesse White Copy Share Image
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
I vividly remember segregation - separate schools, sitting in the balcony at the movie theater, being barred from the public swimming pool. — David Steward Copy Share Image
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody… — Zora Neale Hurston 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
No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
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