Approach Quote by Malcolm X

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted…

— Strom Thurmond

Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The ostensible culprit is liberalism’s bitterly contested remedies which asked too much of whites. Yet this ignores the long history, in the North as…

— Ian Haney López

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none,…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Blacks and whites in the South have had to learn to live together in a new way. Up north, they're getting acquainted for the…

— Herman E. Talmadge

In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from organizing for…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I think, again, that that does the whole problem a, a disservice. It's not a case of our wanting to mix socially with whites.…

— Malcolm X

“If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends…

— Dorothy Allison

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals…

— James Weldon Johnson

People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true.…

— Jesmyn Ward

Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical.

— Malcolm X