America Quote by Will Cain

My mother was born into a segregated America. How crazy is that?

— Lena Waithe

I grew up black in segregated America, where it was hard to find an open door. It's harder now for young blacks to find…

— Shelby Steele

As you know, Sunday at 11 o'clock is the most segregated hour in America. You have black churches; you have white churches; you have…

— David Oyelowo

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some…

— Dan Rather

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority…

— Jonathan Kozol

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

— Ed Markey

Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the beginning of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The people who want to be segregated are part of a different generation, and they have lived their lives. They are the stakeholders and…

— Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

— Ken Robinson

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the…

— Angela Davis

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated…

— Samuel P. Huntington

In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.

— Daniel Levitin