Segregation Quotes

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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes… — George Aiken
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the… — Michael N. Castle
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by… — John Henrik Clarke
In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me. — Maya Angelou
My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by… — Malcolm X
We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us… — Malcolm X
Everybody has the right to marry the person they love and be represented as a couple and family... It's something that people will look back… — Julianne Moore
The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical… — David Lack
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. — Stanley Crouch
...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination, but also to… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see.… — Cab Calloway
I fell in love with it. Walking around just feels so cinematic. I find the aris- tocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the… — Imogen Poots
Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of… — Rem Koolhaas
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The… — Lydia Lunch
Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements… — Shirley Chisholm
Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization. — Margaret Sanger
I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation. — Malcolm X
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need… — Clarence Thomas

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