Top 1200 Racial Segregation Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006, it is an offence to stir up hatred towards religious and racial groups. 'Stirring up hatred' is an expression both loaded and undefined. Do I stir up hatred towards a religious group by criticising its beliefs in outspoken terms?

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

The stage is the last bastion of segregation.

[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal these state laws, but failed. So they appealed to the federal government, which responded with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But this federal law didn't simply repeal state laws compelling segregation. It also prohibited voluntary segregation. What had been mandatory became forbidden. Neither before nor after the Civil Rights Act were people free to make their own decisions about who they associated with.

I come up in a segregated 1943 atmosphere of segregation.

It's good that segregation is over.

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

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

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

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

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

Segregation has no place in the education system.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

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

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

If we want to do more than just end mass incarceration—if we want to put an end to the history of racial caste in America—we must lay down our racial bribes, join hands with people of all colors who are not content to wait for change to trickle down, and say to those who would stand in our way: Accept all of us or none.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. ...To pursue the concept of racial entitlement - even for the most admirable and benign of purposes - is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.

I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other.

When you say you want to talk about racial justice, that`s not the same as I want to do something about racial justice. Saying I want to hold police accountable is doing something. Saying that I want to take money out of politics, big money, is doing something.

Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.

A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

The beautiful thing about having grown up in Brooklyn is, because of the rich cultural and racial diversity there, no one seemed to give too much thought to where I fit on the racial spectrum. But there were times when I would run up against someone who was interested in figuring out what race was. That would come as a surprise, and in some cases, like a slap in the face.

Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

I think you're only post-racial when you stop asking if you're post-racial. When the Neanderthals finally stopped asking themselves if they were in a post-saber tooth society, that's when they were post-saber tooth.

Inter-racial sex is probably some of the best sex on the planet. You know what that is? Because with inter-racial sex there's like this whole added pressure to perform. 'Cause it's kinda like you're not just humping for yourself. You're humping for your race. You got to represent your people.

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

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

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

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

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

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

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

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

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

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

There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants.

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

L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

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.

It is time to raze the institutional foundations of racism and segregation within politics, law enforcement and society at large.

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people talking about taking their country back. There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus.

Mayor De Blasio's appointment of Bill Bratton as police commissioner is the height of hypocrisy. Asking Bratton to stop racial profiling and stop and frisk is like asking an arsonist to help you put out fires. Bratton along with his partner Giuliani started and supported racial profiling stops. A new progressive mayor? I think not!

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

You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode because black people are dissatisfied; they're dissatisfied not only with the white man, but they're dissatisfied with these Negroes who have been sitting around here posing as leaders and spokesmen for black people and actually making the problem worse instead of making the problem better.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all.

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

All politicians are going to mask to some degree in order to present themselves in away they think will get them votes. What's different in Obama's case is that he's wearing a racial mask, this 'bargainer's' mask, and I think very effectively, whereby he gives whites the benefit of the doubt. He's essentially saying, 'I am going to presume you are not racist, if you won't hold my race against me.' So, his mask is a distinctly racial one.

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

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

For so long, black conservatives have not been able to have a voice; people who have bi-racial children, people in bi-racial relationships, it has been so black and white. I blame Obama. His eight years in office did a lot of damage in terms of race relations in this country.

Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America.

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

I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I'm being effective, because I'm not trying to make them comfortable. The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.

But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.