Segregation Quotes - Page 2

• Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!

  George C. Wallace

  Forever, Tomorrow, Racial Segregation

  First Inaugural Speech as Governor of Alabama, January 1963.

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

  Nat King Cole

  Schooling, Plenty, Only Time

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• There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Religious, Luxury, People

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

  Lillian Smith

  Men, Evil, Patterns

  Acceptance speech for the Charles S. Johnson Award at Fisk University, 1966.

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• I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

  Clarence Thomas

  Writing, Fighting, Thinking

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

  Strom Thurmond

  Integrity, Race

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• During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

  Michael N. Castle

  School, College, African American

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• 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.

  Strom Thurmond

  Two, Southern, Doubt

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• An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

  Jonathan Kozol

  School, College, Ideas

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• Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

  Debbie Allen

  Beautiful, Block, Independent

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

  Carter G. Woodson

  Overcoming, Finals, Accepting

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.101, Book Tree

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• I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

  Bayard Rustin

  Military, War, Issues

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

  Nat King Cole

  School, Hard Times, Chance

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• People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation.

  Rosa Parks

  Hurt, Children, Giving Up

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• In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.

  F. LaGard Smith

  Heart, America, Birth

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• Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it.

  Malcolm X

  Dog, Men, Jail

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• The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Rights, White, Racism

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

  Kiese Laymon

  Black, Vices, Virtue

  Kiese Laymon (2013). “Long Division”, p.3, Agate Publishing

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Taken, Mirrors

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• 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

  Cab Calloway

  Fun, Saws, Entertaining

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• 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.

  Ornette Coleman

  Writing, School, Mean

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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

  Cass Sunstein

  Race, Matter, Corny

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• Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Japan, Sublime, Quality

  "S,M,L,XL". Book by Bruce Mau and Rem Koolhaas, 1995.

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• It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

  Major Owens

  Rights, Two, People

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• 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.

  John Deacon

  Beach, Discrimination, Bus

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