In America, and no doubt elsewhere, we have such a tendency toward the segregation of cultural products. This is a black book,… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He… — Jeffrey Rosen 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
This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish. — Maisie Williams Copy Share Image
Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of… — John Shelby Spong 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
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
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
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
Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation. — Marian Wright Edelman 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
In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked… — Carter G. Woodson 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
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
Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant… — John Taylor Gatto 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
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things… — Bruce Hornsby 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
The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This… — Malcolm X 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
Problem with segregation isn't that people can't live in peaceful harmony singing "Kumbaya" - although that wouldn't be bad. The problem is… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image