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

This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish. — Maisie Williams

Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist. — Auliq Ice

Because anyone who thinks there is something wrong with being gay is like those people you read about in History who believed it segregation. — Michael Barakiva

The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that. — Jeff Sessions

I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run. — Richard Benjamin

What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism. — Maajid Nawaz

The great tragedy of segregation isn't so much that we see less of each other but that in separating from each other we see less of God. — Tullian Tchividjian

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

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. — Maya Angelou

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

Segregation shaped me; education liberated me. — Maya Angelou

Crossing a single street transformed the way people talked, determined the size and condition of the homes, the dimension and character of the dreams. — Colson Whitehead

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. — Alice Walker

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence? — Walter Dean Myers

I was generally in favor of segregation of the dead and the living. — Eileen Cook

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

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

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

Segmentation 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Segregation has no place in the education system. — Richard Dawkins

America preaches integration and practices segregation. — Malcolm X

Back when they supported segregation, Lott and Thurmond were Democrats. — Ann Coulter

Pop culture mirrored the segregation. — Jeff Chain

Discrimination and segregation are evidence of lower intelligence. — Erik Martin Willen

New Testament Christians were most known by their love for their neighbors, but today we are most known for our segregation of the lowly. — Jefferson Bethke

Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue. — Kiese Laymon

Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it. — Bobby Seale

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination. — John Lewis

Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation? — Pat Buchanan

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

In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper. — A.E. Samaan

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

Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past. — George Takei

Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation. — Barry Goldwater

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble. — Paul Harris

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

Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word. — Claudia Rankine

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

Segregation, he concluded, is neither sought nor imposed by healthy ... human beings. — Jonathan Kozol

If Nepal is to become a new Nepal, she must first become free from ethnic segregation. — Santosh Kalwar

Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance. — Auliq Ice

There is no scriptural basis for segregation. — Billy Graham

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

Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation. — Jim DeMint

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit — Woodrow Wilson

With wrong people, there has to be a choice, to stay with them and go down with them or reject them and suffer alone. — Auliq Ice

There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty? — Ben Harper

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. — Martin Luther King Jr.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation. — Marian Wright Edelman

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation. — Malcolm X

Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country. — Robert Dallek

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

In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth. — F. LaGard Smith

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

Today's college students demand a self-segregating "safe space". Rosa Parks spinning in her grave. — A.E. Samaan

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Racism is a disease of white people — Albert Einstein

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

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

Ignoring the evils of our history will only cause them to reoccur. — R.M. Donaldson

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Amazing. Three hundred years of segregation undone by a single girl. She must be as incredible as she looks. — Veronica Rossi

$1,200, That was the price of a man in those days. Now you can call him black, or you can call him a slave, but he was a man nonetheless. — Jay Grewal

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation. — Major Owens

I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation. — Pat Conroy

We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free. — Cab Calloway

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity. — Randall Kennedy

Perhaps I can't escape the image that others have created for me, but if I don't try, I will never know if I can or not. — Julian Houston

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God. — John Shelby Spong

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