Civil rights Quote by Allison Schroeder

I vividly remember segregation - separate schools, sitting in the balcony at the movie theater, being barred from the public swimming pool.

— David Steward

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Too Short

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women.…

— John Lewis

“What I didn’t understand at the time was that the other kids genuinely had no clue what a white person was. Black kids in…

— Trevor Noah

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

— Anonymous

Segregation has never been a shadowy, impossible-to-pin-down conspiracy. It's been an American way of life.

— Jason Whitlock

MLK, Jr. taught me how to say no to segregation, and I can hear him saying now... when you straighten up your back, no…

— John Lewis

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

— Maya Angelou

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

— Shelby Steele

Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't…

— Claudette Colvin

Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not…

— Diane Nash

My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told…

— John Lewis