Decided Quote by Ethel Waters

The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together,…

— Theodore Hesburgh

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as…

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

— Malcolm X

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very…

— Herschel Walker

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

— John Shelton Reed

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

— Malcolm X

One of the things that is so striking to me about the South, especially living here now as an adult, is that I see…

— Jesmyn Ward

Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects. ... The white goes further.…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north during World…

— Ann Coulter

Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.

— Robert Dallek

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

— Terry Gross

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares

— Josh Lucas