Segregation Quotes

137 quotes by 96 authors

Back when they supported segregation, Lott and Thurmond were Democrats. — Ann Coulter
There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty? — Ben Harper
My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me… — John Lewis
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White… — John Lewis
Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it. There… — Bayard Rustin
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and… — Susan Jacoby
[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal these… — Harry Browne
The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class,… — Margaret Sanger
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence? — Walter Dean Myers
A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the… — John McCain
Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social,… — Richard Florida
In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic… — Carter G. Woodson
I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and… — Gwen Ifill
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work. — Nat King Cole
Segregation has no place in the education system. — Richard Dawkins
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on. — Dorothy Day
It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation. — Marian Wright Edelman
In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the… — Jesse Jackson

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