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> [Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/segregation-was-a-burden-for-many-blacks-because-the-end-of-the-civil/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

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## More by Ed Smith

> [Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/even-during-my-youth-i-can-recall-very-few-black-people-living-on-any/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

> [One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/one-of-the-prices-that-we-pay-for-integration-was-the-disintegration/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

> [When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/when-you-say-that-you-are-a-race-man-it-means-that-you-embrace-the/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

> [The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/the-black-community-now-in-many-ways-divided-itself-the-way-the/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

> [Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/before-booker-t-washington-we-have-small-business-owners-but-we-do/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

> [I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/i-can-think-of-no-one-that-my-grandparents-knew-that-told-me-stories/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

> [When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/when-you-were-growing-up-in-the-30s-20s-of-course-the-40s-all-black/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

> [Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/segregation-was-a-burden-for-many-blacks-because-the-end-of-the-civil/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

> [So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/so-i-m-a-young-boy-in-the-1940s-growing-up-seeing-ralph-bunche-on-a/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

> [People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/people-should-have-the-choice-to-be-able-to-live-where-they-want-to/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

> [The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/the-washington-black-community-was-able-to-succeed-beyond-his-wildest/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

> [What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/what-is-wrong-with-george-bush-what-is-his-problem/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

> [Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/many-of-the-master-chefs-in-the-south-both-the-upper-south-as-well-as/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

> [It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/it-seems-every-year-people-make-the-resolution-to-exercise-and-lose/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

> [There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-smith/there-s-a-way-in-which-you-can-look-at-clothing-as-your-outer-skin/)

[Ed Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-smith/)

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