Segregation Quotes

Segregation has no place in the education system.
Richard Dawkins

Education, Place, System

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

Him, Accept, Show

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

History, Since, Goes

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
Jack Kingston

Marriage, Nature, Perfect

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.
Jonathan Kozol

True, America, Strange

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
Jesse Jackson

History, Down, Before

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

Work, Power, Art

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

Black, Wrong, White

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!
George C. Wallace

Tomorrow, Forever

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

Education, Public, Vengeance

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.
Jonathan Kozol

Children, Evil, Worst

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.
Jesse Jackson

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
Paul Harris

Anyone, Trouble, Except

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.
Clarence Thomas

Bad, Fight, Person

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.
Anna Deavere Smith

Hard, America, Living

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.
George C. Wallace

Tomorrow, Before, Tyranny

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
Major Owens

Enemy, Greatest

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

End, Violence, Redneck

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.
Strom Thurmond

Mind, Doubt, Two

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
Michael N. Castle

Learning, Black, Place

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.
Maggie Gallagher

End, Revolution, Beginning

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

Rights, Generation, Concerned

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

History, Matter, Race

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
Major Owens

Women, Best, History

America preaches integration and practices segregation.
Malcolm X

America, Preaches, Practices

From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
Bill Frist

Character, Live, True

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.
John Deacon

Thought, Actually, Bit

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
Dorothy Day

Legal, Battle, Against

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.
Shelby Foote

Time, Society, Hard

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.
Kathryn Stockett

Movies, Her, State

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