Child Quote by Charles Bradley

I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn't go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town.

— Bryan Stevenson

I remember being a teenager, I never thought that I'd live in a society that was not segregated. It happened.

— Shelby Steele

My mother grew up in South Carolina. This was the 1940s and early '50s. Segregation was still legal. Separate bathrooms. All of it.

— Dawn Staley

I was raised in a desegregated neighborhood.

— Steve Bannon

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

— Jerry Falwell

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

— Morgan Freeman

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

— Anonymous

I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I…

— Jonathan Banks

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into…

— Bryan Stevenson

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

— Alice Walker

My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told…

— John Lewis

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the…

— Angela Davis