America Quote by Anonymous

I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King.

— Charles Bradley

White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they made fun…

— Paul Mooney

I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of…

— Nipsey Russell

“Segregation has it all wrong. We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who…

— Lauren Oliver

You have to be a whole, dignified, self-respecting person in order to be an English teacher or whatever kind of job your education would…

— Diane Nash

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

— Coretta Scott King

I did nothing worse than Lyndon Johnson. He was for segregation when he thought he had to be. I was for segregation, and I…

— George Wallace

“My mother did not want to go to America: this much I knew. I knew it by the way she became distracted and impatient…

— Catherine Chung

The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But…

— Chris Van Hollen

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.

— Tom Vilsack

I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have…

— Norman Rockwell