“In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.” WayMightOrderWallSatParksSegregationRosaBefore And After Author:Jesse Jackson
“Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.” PeopleEndsWinningLostVoteSegregationDisappointRegisterRight To Vote Author:Jesse Jackson
“The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?” HardSchoolChanceAudienceCourtSupremeHard TimesSupreme CourtSegregationIntegratingHaving A Hard Time Author:Nat King Cole
“The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.” ReasonWholeBreakJazzBreaking DownSegregation Author:Norman Granz
“After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I started doing that about two years later. Finally, I said, "Oh, that means what I really want to do is to be a composer." But when I was coming up in Texas, there was segregation. There was no schools to go to. I taught myself how to read and how to start writing.” WantWritingYearsMeanSaidTwoSchoolFoundTaughtTwo YearsTexasComposerSegregationPlaying Music Author:Ornette Coleman
“I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life.” MenYearsPersonsSchoolLawLeftWhiteMetsSixTwentiesInsultScarSegregationHarvardLaw SchoolUnforgettableSix Year OldsGrown ManHarvard Law School Author:Randall Robinson
“Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.” PeopleShouldIdeasAgeSchoolSegregationCurriculumUniformity Author:Seymour Papert
“L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.” HugeHorrorDiversityDrawsSegregationUnconventionalAllure Author:James Frey
“I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to his colleagues in the Senate and the American people that he is absolutely opposed to any segregation in any form and racism in any form and discrimination in any form.” PeopleYearsBelieveFormKnownMessagesRacismDon't BelieveDiscriminationRacistSenateColleaguesSegregation Author:John McCain
“Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.” PeopleWellsMayStatesSchoolDecisionUnitedRaceUnited StatesCommunicationBrokenIntelligentCourtSupremeSupreme CourtSegregationPublic SchoolBroken Down Author:Benjamin E. Mays
“Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.” PeopleTogetherSpaceCitiesChicagoSegregationRiotGet TogetherRacial Segregation Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.” ParentTaughtGrewGrew UpTerrorHopefulHumiliationSegregationHatefulTaught Us Author:Bryan Stevenson
“Middle-class kids get to play, develop their thinking ability. Poor kids are much more likely to get regimentation under the guise of socialization. On top of it, we have huge segregation in early childhood programs. I don't see these patterns changing anytime soon, and that's a big obstacle.” ThinkingPlayBigsKidsAbilityPoorClassChildhoodMiddleHugeProgramPatternsObstaclesMiddle ClassSegregationGuiseEarly ChildhoodSocializationRegimentation Author:Pedro Noguera
“I agree that all kids of all colors love hip-hop. My point in writing the book was to raise questions about the ways the hip-hop generation and the millennium generation, both who have lived their entire lives in post-segregation America, are processing race in radically different ways than any generation of Americans. I think they have a lot to tell us as a country about ways of addressing race matters.” ThinkingWayWritingBookDifferentCountryMatterKidsAmericaRaceGenerationsColorRaisesAgreeHip HopHipsPostsDifferent WaysHopsSegregationProcessingMillenniumRaises Questions Author:Bakari Kitwana
“If we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET, and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you're only awarded if you're black.” IfsWantNeedsBlackAwardsSegregationStacey Author:Stacey Dash
“Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us. But it wasn't - it was so light. It was so fluffy. I didn't really have a strong awareness of segregation and the separation of races until I left Lorain, Ohio.” ChildrenLightMightNamesLeftStrongRaceAwarenessFiguresSeparationSegregationOhioFluffy Author:Toni Morrison
“Jesse Owen was bigger than a black hero, he was an American hero. For me, I looked at it from that perspective. Through my research, I obviously learned a lot, much of which made me sad, upset, disappointed and even angry, regarding what Jesse had to go through. Not only was he a black man in America during an age of high racial tension and segregation, but he was also living in the middle of the Great Depression - it was very difficult times for him and his family.” MenMadeAgeAmericaDifficultBlackMiddlePerspectiveHeroResearchBiggerAngryUpsetTensionDisappointedSegregationDifficult TimesGreat DepressionRacial TensionAmerican Hero Author:Stephan James
“We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately it's been a bloody, trying, wasteful, but eventually positive struggle.” WorldTryingTwoWarAmericaReligiousStruggleGoneSlaveryWar Of The WorldsCivil WarBloodySegregationThoroughTwo WorldsReligious Wars Author:Michael Scheuer
“Cincinnati like so many other cities, we know that so many of our schools, when it comes to public schools, are still de facto segregated racially. It has to do with residential segregation. It has to do with James Crow, Jr., which is at work, de facto rather than legally so that some of the integration is taking place among more and more well-to-do.” KnowsWellsStillsSchoolCitiesIntegrationSegregationPublic SchoolCrow Author:Cornel West
“The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it up. They practiced segregation. They practiced lynchings. I don't see any great value in that.” GivingMadeWarCountryValuesReligiousSlaverySouthSectionsSegregationBeltsLynchingGreat Value Author:John Shelby Spong
“The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to give justice to gay and lesbian people. But the Christian church, in both Catholic and Protestant forms, resisted every one of those humanizing developments. The church was on the wrong side of all three of those fights.” PeopleGivingChristianFormFightingThreeSidesChurchJusticeStruggleCenturyDevelopmentGayCatholicBroke20th CenturySegregationProtestantsTurning PointsChristian Church Author:John Shelby Spong
“Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion, you will discover that it endorsed slavery and quoted the Bible to approve it; the Pope even owned slaves.” PeopleIfsLooksChurchKingsSlaverySlaveOrganizedPopeSegregationLutherOrganized Religion Author:John Shelby Spong
“I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.” GrewGrew UpSlaveryGods WillSegregationCarolinaNorth Carolina Author:John Shelby Spong
“In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how to treat their slaves. "Slaves, obey your masters. Masters, be kind to yourslaves." Paul was in favor of a kinder and gentler slavery; it never occurred to him to raise the question about whether slavery itself was immoral.” PeopleKindMastersArgumentTreatsRaisesSlaverySlaveFavorsAddressesBe KindImmoralSegregationKinderColossians Author:John Shelby Spong
“Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He advised them and advised the head of Howard University to create a good law school. And that inspired Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall in their path-breaking work on behalf of desegregation.” GovernmentSchoolLawSupportPathInspiredUniversityAfrican AmericanFederal GovernmentBehalfSegregationWilsonLaw SchoolHoustonCourteousHamiltonLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity - or he never sought the opportunity I should say - to work closely with African American lawyers. He was also a Southern Democrat, you know, at a time when both parties were supportive of segregation.” KnowsShouldOpportunityPartyDemocratLawyerAfrican AmericanSouthernSupportiveSegregationLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as certainly [Louis] Brandeis was, or many Democrats were on the question of segregation.” BookRepublicanDemocratHookSegregationNew BooksTheodoreLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.” PeopleWayPartyGrewRepublicanGrew UpReactionsRepublican PartyMisunderstoodSegregation Author:Jeff Sessions
“People of my generation knew we needed to move beyond that, the racial division and segregation and unsustainable social relations, that were unfair to millions of people. But it didn't mean that we were going to become a big government liberal.” PeopleMeanBigsGovernmentMovingSocialMillionsGenerationsNeededRelationDivisionUnfairSegregationMy GenerationBig GovernmentSocial Relations Author:Jeff Sessions
“Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able to do anything, anybody not able to do what they can do. The daily lessons of exclusion, having hand-me-down books in schools, of seeing ambulances turn away and not give health care for people lying in the streets who are migrant workers. Everything I do today stems from that segregated existence.” PeopleGivingChildrenI CanBookHandsCareTodayAbleSchoolLyingTurnsCan DoExistenceSeeingStreetsLessonsWorkersRageDiscriminationHealth CareStemSegregationExclusionMigrantsAmbulancePeople LieMigrant Workers Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.” ThinkingKnowsKindEndsChanceGrowing UpGrowingSouthDiscriminationRejectionLunchSegregationGeorgiaAtlantaRacial DiscriminationMaking HistoryAtlanta Georgia Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races, you can get taught a painful lesson. And there are inmates with a level of consciousness who feel it's their duty to enforce this segregation.” IfsFeelsLevelsRaceConsciousnessTaughtDutyLessonsPainfulPrisonerYardsSegregationInmates Author:James Fox
“I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, "If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on." I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.” IfsThinkingNeedsSaidMatterKidsTodayBlackGenerationsPostsShirtsT ShirtSegregationBlack Lives MatterNinaBlack Lives Author:Nikki Giovanni
“I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.” BelieveHas BeensSpiritRacismSlaveryInjusticeUsaRepentanceLackingSegregation Author:David Oyelowo
“The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.” StillsFeltPolicySegregationBirmingham Author:Andre Holland
“By explaining the difference between segregation and separation. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. If I have children and they live in my house, I care for them, they're dependent upon me. And their dependence upon me puts me in a position to regulate their lives, control their lives, tell them where to go, where they can't go. That's a form of segregation.” IfsChildrenTwoDoneCareFormHouseDifferencesPositionSeparationSuperiorsDependentInferiorsI CareDependenceSegregationExplaining Author:Malcolm X
“If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.” IfsMenHumansStillsProblemBlackHuman BeingsDignitySeparationRecognitionIntegrationSegregation Author:Malcolm X
“[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn't directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.” KnowsGrewGrew UpViolentTendenciesBarackExposedHawaiiSegregationCrowJim Crow Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per - as a person has not committed any of the deeds that has produced the plight that the negro finds himself in, is he guiltless? The only way you can determine that is, take the negro child who's only four-years-old. Can he escape, though he's only four years old, can he escape the stigma of discrimination and segregation? He's only four-years-old.” WayYearsChildrenPersonsWhiteFourDetermineCommittedDeedsDiscriminationFour YearsSegregationStigmaPlight Author:Malcolm X
“Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.” MenChildrenBlackWhiteSavedDiscriminationWhite ManSegregationToss Author:Malcolm X
“White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts are designed to eliminate this, that or, or the next thing but, yet, it is never eliminated is in no way impressive to me.” PeopleWayHas BeensStillsNextIndividualWhiteDiscriminationJailIsolatedSegregationImpressive Author:Malcolm X
“Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S. Navy at the time he issued the order.” EnoughOrderMilitaryCommandCourageousServingNavySegregationSubmarinesTrumanRacial SegregationHarry Truman Author:Jimmy Carter
“Some Israeli politicians have proposed the transfer of Palestinians out of what is currently called Israel, either into the occupied territories, into Jordan or out into other Arab lands, with the idea that there would be no intermixing of Palestinian and Jewish Israelis or Palestinian and Jewish communities. But the idea of an absolute segregation is one that I find lamentable.” IdeasWould BeCommunityLandPoliticianAbsolutesIsraelTerritoryPalestinianSegregationIsraeliTransfersJordanJewish Community Author:Judith Butler
“I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent in improving standards which lag behind to a large extent because of segregation,discrimination, and the legacy of slavery.” ThinkingDealsBehindsStandardsSlaveryDiscriminationLegacyPhasesImprovingSegregationLag Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty of the apartheid system which existed in the south. Then white people began to get on the freedom buses and travel to the south and be part of the voter registration drives and they... some of them were beaten and some of them were murdered but they stood with the African-American community and the civil rights movement. It's time for straight people to do that today and it is time for gay people to insist that they do that today.” PeopleTodayAmericaCommunityWhiteRightsMovementGaySouthCrueltyCivil RightsAfrican AmericanVotersBusBeatenSegregationParallelsBrutalityCivil Rights MovementGay PeopleApartheidRegistrationVoter Registration Author:Cleve Jones
“I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally. I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.” BelieveHas BeensAmericaSpiritIndividualRacismSlaveryInjusticeCorporateRepentanceLackingSegregationReconciliation Author:David Oyelowo
“I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero, who I much admired. So, I never really had anxiety in the way that someone like Obama would have. When he walks down the street alone, since no one knows who his mother is, they're just going to see him as a black guy.” KnowsWaySchoolMotherGuyFatherBlackWalksStreetsGrewHeroAnxietyRaisedNeighborhoodSegregationMy HeroGreat FatherAll BlackBlack GuysEtcetera Author:Shelby Steele
“When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we as black people tap into a divine system that a lot of other cultures and races can't tap into and that system allows us to prosper in spite of everything that's been thrown our way from slavery to segregation to mass incarceration. We have a privilege pre-ordained by God that nothing and no one can stop.” PeopleSpiritualCultureBlackDivineSlaverySpiteBlack PeopleSegregationIncarceration Author:Charlamagne Tha God
“I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried to sue them for throwing her out of the theatre; it was that they took the law and used it to arrest her. That was really shocking to me. We had no laws in Canada actually requiring segregation, like they did in the United States. But here we had people using the law - the amusements tax act - to enforce segregation, and our courts allowed them to do that.” PeopleTakenTaxesTheatreSegregationViola Author:Constance Backhouse
“It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the bad old U.S. where they had segregation, whites-only washrooms and hotels. We think we were the capital of the Underground Railroad, we were the place to where the slaves escaped, we were a much better country. But in fact, some of the black people in Canada at the time said, 'It's actually much easier in the United States because you know which hotels, restaurants, theatres won't let you in because the signs are there. In Canada, you never know.'” PeopleThinkingCountryBlackLaughingPrideSlaveTheatreHotelBlack PeopleDepressingSegregation Author:Constance Backhouse