Segregated Quotes

64 quotes by 56 authors

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most… — Charles Kuralt
Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of… — Dan Rather
You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross… — Lance Reddick
I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment. — Anna Deavere Smith
When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration. — Arlen Specter
I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section… — Joseph Stiglitz
I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the… — Desmond Tutu
I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man. — Michael Eric Dyson
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our… — Bryan Stevenson
As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere… — Teresa Heinz
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who… — Malcolm X
As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the… — Kelis
A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo. — Frederica Mathewes-Green
I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine. — Clarence Thomas
I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated. — Don Cornelius
Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even… — Jessye Norman
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority… — Ed Smith
In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country. — Bobby Scott
At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres. — Cab Calloway

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