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“Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and understanding. It seemed as if the dream of a color-blind society was within reach in the jazz world, where musicians were judged on merit and not skin color.”

Source: Where the dark and the light folks meet: race and the mythology, politics, and business of jazz

“In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.”

Knows Humans Heart America Birth Human Life Segregation Racial Segregation

Author:F. LaGard Smith

“Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.”

Knows Today Black Certainty Funeral Segregation Black History

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?”

Ifs States Law Results Vote Minorities Denied Unjust Segregation Legislature Right To Vote Alabama Devising

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the same hour when many are standing to sing: "In Christ There Is No East Nor West.”

Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

“Back when they supported segregation, Lott and Thurmond were Democrats.”

Politics Democrat Segregation Back When

Book:How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter

Source: How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter

“Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.”

Black Virtue Vices Segregation

Book:Long Division

Source: Long Division

“Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it. There are three ways in which one can deal with an injustice. (a) One can accept it without protest. (b) On can seek to avoid it. (c) One can resist the injustice non-violently. To accept it is to perpetuate it.”

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Author:Bayard Rustin

“There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and discrimination on a reluctant nation's social agenda. Would black churches have been able to take the lead in the struggle had they been dependent on funds doled out for 'faith-based initiatives' . . . ?”