Awareness Quote by Toni Morrison

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

— Anonymous

I was the only mixed-race girl in my school, but for me, that was a positive thing; it made me unique. If it wasn't…

— Alesha Dixon

Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn't matter to us what…

— Ruby Bridges

Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not…

— Diane Nash

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women.…

— John Lewis

Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't…

— Claudette Colvin

What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There…

— Barack Obama

When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate.

— Michaela Coel

The beautiful thing about having grown up in Brooklyn is, because of the rich cultural and racial diversity there, no one seemed to give…

— Wentworth Miller

I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we…

— James Heckman