As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“researchers should realize that many people—not just whites—prefer segregation.” — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader. — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe. — Myrlie Evers-Williams Copy Share Image
Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it. — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
Segregation is humiliation to a nation that is facing problems that are constantly racing through our world on an infinite supply of… — Abstracminded Copy Share Image
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation… — George C. Wallace Copy Share Image
The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it… — John Shelby Spong 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
One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Segregation has it all wrong. We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that… — Cab Calloway 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
“Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896,… — Mark Levin 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 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
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
I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero,… — Shelby Steele 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
“The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“Many Southern communities developed two school systems: an underfunded public system mostly attended by black students, and private schools set up for… — Kristen Green Copy Share Image
I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried… — Constance Backhouse Copy Share Image
“When the law regulates behavior it plays an indirect part in molding public sentiment. The enforcement of the law is itself a… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“If federal programs were not, even to this day, reinforcing racial isolation by disproportionately directing low-income African Americans who receive housing assistance… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“The wounding legacy of segregation and growing up knowing adults who had worked for civil rights and equal opportunities for African Americans… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races. — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. — Alice Walker 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
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish. — Maisie Williams Copy Share Image
My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
