“It shames me to admit that in the white-defined society in which I was raised, blacks were considered merely background. This was… — Jonathan Odell Copy Share Image
Housing is where it all begins. Where you live determines everything from where you shop for food, to how safe your neighborhood… — Solly Granatstein Copy Share Image
C'mon everybody, yeah, this is your life I'm talking about a revolution we gotta organize We don't need no segregation, we don't… — Prince Copy Share Image
It happens a lot every four years, or it used to, every time the Paralympics comes around. They'll be like: 'We've had… — Chris McCausland 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
I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools,… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in… — Lydia Lunch 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
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
“Discrimination and segregation are evidence of lower intelligence.” — Erik Martin Willén Copy Share Image
“Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation: These bonded white people into a broad aristocracy united by the salient fact of unblackness.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
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
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run. — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty? — Ben Harper 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
“She took my papers, the papers that had followed me from the Khobar police station to jail, and pointed at a place… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
This kind of 'separate but equal,' I've seen what it's done in the history here in America, and it didn't work. And… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am… — Helen Keller 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
Segregation or separation is thus a basic principle of Biblical Law with respect to religion and morality. Every attempt to destroy this… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate… — Aleksandar Hemon 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
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination,… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg 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
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
“Anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
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