Segregation Quotes
137 quotes by 93 authors
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No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused…
— Lauren Oliver
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We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own…
— Malcolm X
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We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no…
— Bayard Rustin
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The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.
— Bayard Rustin
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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue,…
— Bayard Rustin
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My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was…
— Wynton Marsalis
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Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
— Bobby Seale
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When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it.…
— John Shelby Spong
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We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that…
— Benjamin E. Mays
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I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live…
— Randall Kennedy
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
— Randall Kennedy
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My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
— Alice Walker
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There is no scriptural basis for segregation.
— Billy Graham
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Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and…
— Basmah bint Saud
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Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
— Robert Dallek
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When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation in places of…
— Robert Dallek
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Remember, we really grew up separately; our life experience was very different because of segregation. So I think comedy is a good space to work…
— Riaad Moosa
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This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
— Maisie Williams
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From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them.…
— Bill Frist
Who Wrote These Segregation Quotes
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