Segregation Quotes

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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

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

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!

Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

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 an emotional relationship.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.

In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.

Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any

Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through it. I lived in it. I was of it.

But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.

What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

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, the structures of economic segregation still existed.

If we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET, and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you're only awarded if you're black.