Segregation famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.
-- Bayard Rustin -
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
-- Cab Calloway -
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 -
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
-- Cass Sunstein -
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!
-- George C. Wallace -
There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality.
-- Gwen Ifill -
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
-- Jeanne Moreau -
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 -
I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.
-- Johnnetta B. Cole -
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.
-- Jonathan Kozol -
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
-- Jonathan Kozol -
America preaches integration and practices segregation.
-- Malcolm X -
I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
-- Maya Angelou -
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
-- Nat King Cole -
Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?
-- Pat Buchanan -
I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.
-- Randall Kennedy -
We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.
-- Strom Thurmond -
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit
-- Woodrow Wilson -
The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.
-- Andre Holland -
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.
-- Sanjay Rawal -
In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.
-- Trevor Noah -
Under Sharia law, If a woman has money, she can invest her money. The thing is, what we are concerned about is, in the public arena, there's a difference between a man and a woman. We would have complete segregation in the public arena, but other than that, if she wants to go to the market, if she wants to go to visit her relatives or for medicine or for education. There's a whole host of reasons why she would be out and about but, what we are saying is she not obliged to work. That is the job of the man.
-- Anjem Choudary -
I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.
-- Richard Benjamin
