Doubt Quote by Strom Thurmond

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

— Robert Dallek

The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was…

— Jacqueline Woodson

We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your…

— Malcolm X

We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your…

— Malcolm X

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

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation…

— George C. Wallace

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

— Malcolm X

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and…

— John Shelton Reed

It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as…

— Thurgood Marshall

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted…

— Carson McCullers

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

Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it.…

— Bayard Rustin