My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation? — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty? — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I can't escape the image that others have created for me, but if I don't try, I will never know if… — Julian Houston 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
“Iwent to school with African-American girls during my entire adolescence in Michigan and never noticed them as potential girlfriends, never even wanted… — Kenneth Cain Copy Share Image
“one wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes… — Garrance Franke-Ruta Copy Share Image
In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“She took my papers, the papers that had followed me from the Khobar police station to jail, and pointed at a place… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
MLK, Jr. taught me how to say no to segregation, and I can hear him saying now... when you straighten up your… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they do not know each other; they… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and… — Clark Zlotchew 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
Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it's important to remember that down through the centuries, people motivated… — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
This kind of 'separate but equal,' I've seen what it's done in the history here in America, and it didn't work. And… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity - or he never sought the opportunity I should say - to work closely with African… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still… — Deborah Meier Copy Share Image
We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar… — Greg Erwin Copy Share Image
Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools,… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly… — Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Copy Share Image
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