Best Jim Crow Quotes

38 Jim Crow quotes by 28 unique authors

That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They… — Isabel Wilkerson
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. — Larry Elder
After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system… — David Levering Lewis
Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee… — William J. Brennan
I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people,… — Rita Dove
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin… — Jon Meacham
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have… — Jon Meacham
In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified… — Rand Paul
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments. — Rand Paul
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire. — Al Sharpton
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the… — Thomas Sowell
The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of… — Jim Webb
The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study of the status… — James Heckman

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