Segregation Quotes
Collection of top 81 famous quotes about Segregation
Segregation Quotes & Sayings
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This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
— Maisie Williams
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
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
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
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
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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
Segregation has no place in the education system.
— Richard Dawkins
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
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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
Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper.
— A.E. Samaan
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
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
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
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.
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
What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
— Major Owens
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
