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Segregation Quotes by John Lewis
- 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…
- 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…
- The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our…
- I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing up are gone…
- 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…
- 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…
More Segregation Quotes
- If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find… — George Aiken
- During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in… — 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… — 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… — Malcolm X
- We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah… — 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… — Julianne Moore
- The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level… — David Lack
- In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis 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,… — 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… — Cab Calloway