Cities Quote by Angela Davis

I remember being a teenager, I never thought that I'd live in a society that was not segregated. It happened.

— Shelby Steele

I grew up in a small segregated steel town 6o miles outside of Cleveland, my parents grew up in the segregated south. As a…

— Lori Lightfoot

I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn't go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town.

— Bryan Stevenson

I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a…

— Ed Kowalczyk

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

— Anonymous

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

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

I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy to oppose.…

— Tim Cook

When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were…

— Ed Smith

It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as…

— Thurgood Marshall

I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and…

— Rashida Tlaib

I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed…

— Martin Luther King, Jr