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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
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.
I grew up in a time when there was real segregation. And blacks during the 50s and so forth took a lot of responsibility for their lives because the government didn't.
My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.
When I first ran for governor... I had to stand up for segregation or be defeated, but I never insulted black people by calling them inferior.
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.
We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.
While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.
Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
We humans gravitate to people who share our culture because it's easier... the problem is that self-segregation is not just bad, it is dangerous.
I think everyone should - can share whatever they wish when their heart is touched and they want to spread more positivity rather than segregation and separation in this world.
A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's the racism, and those are the hard facts of the story.
Segregation is a problem not just in my country but in every country.
I wanted to be a part of telling women there is no segregation. There is no need to ever not feel beautiful or glamorous. There should be nothing that gets in your way.
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society.
In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?
Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?
We should not forget that in the '60s, George Wallace's motto was 'segregation forever,' and that he did nothing to deter bombings and other acts of violence and, by his actions, condoned them.
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.
All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.
Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all.
There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.
In today's world, access to the Internet is inarguably critical to function in informal and formal spaces - and the costs to digital segregation are rising.
the tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation along secondary or superficial or downright imbecilic lines.
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.
We have a locale-based education system; we have increasing economic segregation. We clearly need a larger federal program to try to help disadvantaged districts.
There shouldn't be a segregation of women over a size 16, it should just be all women who want to wear beautiful clothes.
This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
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.
It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as anything else, this is the key in the elimination of discrimination in the United States.
My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.
Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...''You are not equal to...'
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.
In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were.
The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pretty monolithic views of different classes of people, and because of that, we've lost a certain amount of cultural cohesion.
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.
Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.
L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
Segregation has never been a shadowy, impossible-to-pin-down conspiracy. It's been an American way of life.
When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White.
What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.
Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard for black people to have a fair share.
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.
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.
I think people from Northern Ireland have some kind of unspoken general feeling of what it is to be around segregation. You have an awareness of it because you know how much grief it's caused.
Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.
I vividly remember segregation - separate schools, sitting in the balcony at the movie theater, being barred from the public swimming pool.
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.
The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.
I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it.
