Segregation Quotes

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We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence,… — Satish Kumar
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. — Cass Sunstein
Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't accept… — Claudette Colvin
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast… — Michelle Alexander
If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate… — Malcolm X
Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as… — Debbie Allen
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't… — Shelby Foote
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to… — Major Owens
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. — Malcolm X
Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have… — A. Philip Randolph
My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
But in New York, itâ€™s differentâ€”even uptown itâ€™s really grand, and thereâ€™s no real segregation there. Itâ€™s all mixed up. — Imogen Poots
The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were… — Leonard Boswell
People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think… — Rosa Parks
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up....… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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