Atlanta Quote by Ray Stannard Baker

There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

— Anita Diament

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my…

— Harriet Tubman

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

— Andre Kostelanetz

Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at…

— Walter Dean Myers

Most people who are not of color, their parents didn't need to tell them how to act around police or what to do if…

— Booker T

I wanted the young African-American girls also on the bus to know that they had a right to be there, because they had paid…

— Claudette Colvin

“I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments later a…

— Bessie Head

I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear…

— Rosa Parks

Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold…

— B. B. King

The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and…

— Leonard Slatkin

Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands of police…

— Bernie Sanders

There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually…

— Isabel Wilkerson