Top 334 Segregation Quotes & Sayings

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

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.

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

Segregation is not exclusion.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

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

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

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

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

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

You should concentrate on the segregation of waste, especially kitchen waste. Only after segregation the waste becomes useful and it can be recycled.

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.

I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King.

What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.

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

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

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.

I come up in a segregated 1943 atmosphere of segregation.

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

Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.

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.

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.

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!

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

The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly designed to discriminate. Contrary to popular belief, discrimination or segregation do not require animus. They thrive even in the absence of prejudice or ill will. It's common to have racism without racists.

In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than merely shunting people of color to the other side of town, people are locked in literal cages - en masse.

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

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.

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

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

Segregation has no place in the education system.

The stage is the last bastion of segregation.

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.

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

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

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

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

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

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

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

We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals - for the good of both!

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.

I did nothing worse than Lyndon Johnson. He was for segregation when he thought he had to be. I was for segregation, and I was wrong. The media has rehabilitated Johnson; why won't it rehabilitate me?

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

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

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

Blacks have experienced a history of victimization in America, beginning obviously in slavery and then another 100 years of segregation. I grew up in segregation. I know very well what it was about and all of the difficulties it placed on black life, and how we were truly held down before the civil-rights movement.

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

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

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.

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

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.

Either we want to have segregation or integration. And 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.

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

It's good that segregation is over.

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