Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
I vividly remember segregation - separate schools, sitting in the balcony at the movie theater, being barred from the public swimming pool. — David Steward Copy Share Image
America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society. — MC Ren Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
To define each other according to our superficial characteristics and then divide us and hire us and then separate us is nothing… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One consequence of racism and segregation is that many American whites know little or nothing about the daily lives of African Americans.… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I… — Randall Robinson 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
I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“So you’re the infamous Manal al-Sharif,” he said, eyeing me from behind his desk. “Aren’t you ashamed of what you did?” “Is… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation.… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
“...the great tragedy of segregation isn't so much that we see less of each other but that in separating from each other… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
“Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals- for… — Malcolm X 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
Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I did nothing worse than Lyndon Johnson. He was for segregation when he thought he had to be. I was for segregation,… — George Wallace Copy Share Image
I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants. — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard… — Jesse White Copy Share Image
