Segregation Quotes
Words from the fight for civil rights.
Segregation shaped decades of American history, and these quotes reflect the pressures and convictions of those who lived through it. See more on our America page.
It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as anything else, this is the key in the elimination of discrimination in the United States.
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.
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Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
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.
About Quotes
It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
America Quotes
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.
You should concentrate on the segregation of waste, especially kitchen waste. Only after segregation the waste becomes useful and it can be recycled.
Any Quotes
There should be no segregation. Everyone should be united, and everyone should be seen as equals.
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
Anything Quotes
We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
