Segregation Quotes

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

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

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

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

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

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

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.

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

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

Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.

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

We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything.

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

[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.

Under Sharia law, If a woman has money, she can invest her money. The thing is, what we are concerned about is, in the public arena, there's a difference between a man and a woman. We would have complete segregation in the public arena, but other than that, if she wants to go to the market, if she wants to go to visit her relatives or for medicine or for education. There's a whole host of reasons why she would be out and about but, what we are saying is she not obliged to work. That is the job of the man.

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

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.

In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South, the structures of economic segregation still existed.

I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.

I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.

Segregation has no place in the education system.

In the segregated South, education was almost like armor. It was a way to put yourself in a category where even with the slings and arrows and humiliations of racism and segregation, somehow you had better control of the situation. I always said my parents understood that you might not be able to control your circumstances, but they and their parents believed that you could control your reaction to your circumstances.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

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

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.

There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality.

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

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.

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

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

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.