Segregation Quotes

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

— Paul Harris

“How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.”

— Manal al-Sharif

“Pop culture mirrored the segregation.”

— Anonymous

It's good that segregation is over.

— George Wallace

Segregation is not exclusion.

— Ayelet Shaked

“Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.”

— Maya Angelou

Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.

— Kiese Laymon

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit

— Woodrow Wilson

In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.

— Trevor Noah

I've always believed in representation within the mainstream. Integration rather than segregation.

— Chris McCausland

Back when they supported segregation, Lott and Thurmond were Democrats.

— Ann Coulter

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.

— Barry Goldwater

“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.”

— Suzy Kassem

There should be no segregation. Everyone should be united, and everyone should be seen as equals.

— Ellie Bamber

I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.

— Richard Benjamin

The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pretty monolithic views of different classes of…

— J. D. Vance

The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all…

— Alicia Garza

Either we want to have segregation or integration. And if we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels…

— Stacey Dash

[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

— Stanley Crouch

I grew up in a time when there was real segregation. And blacks during the 50s and so forth took a lot…

— Shelby Steele

In this country, there is a segregation of Black Turks and White Turks. Your brother Tayyip belongs to the Black Turks.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of…

— Paul Weyrich

“In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races,…

— James Fox

“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

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

A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow…

— John McCain

Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the…

— Joni Rodgers

I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery,…

— Barbra Streisand

“Unwed white girls who became pregnant in the postwar years were considered psychologically disturbed but treatable, whereas their black counterparts were presumed…

— Leora Tanenbaum

One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work.…

— Anonymous

[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought…

— Harry Browne

“Here is a foundation for understanding today what was clear to only a few fifty years earlier. Now we can see how…

— Derrick Bell

In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons…

— Suzy Kassem

Women and LBGT people have the advantage that they are everybody's son, daughter, cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle. They are in a position…

— Linda Hirshman

Jesse Owen was bigger than a black hero, he was an American hero. For me, I looked at it from that perspective.…

— Stephan James