Country Quote by Linda Sarsour

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

Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no…

— John Dewey

“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?” “No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal…

— Assata Shakur

In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South,…

— Sanjay Rawal

“What neither Warren nor most of the rest of us recognized was that segregation was not, as Nirej Sekhorn put it, simply a "taint"…

— Derrick Bell

South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black…

— Tariq Ramadan

In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime,…

— June Jordan

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though…

— Kathryn Stockett

Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segregated. You…

— Deborah Meier

It happens a lot every four years, or it used to, every time the Paralympics comes around. They'll be like: 'We've had this idea…

— Chris McCausland

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery…

— David Oyelowo

It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the bad old…

— Constance Backhouse

I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass.…

— Lydia Lunch

I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King.

— Charles Bradley

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

— Susan Jacoby