Segregation Quotes - Page 5

• Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

  Rand Paul

  Rights, Jim Crow Laws, Practice

  "Rand Paul attempts to clarify" by Steve Benen, washingtonmonthly.com. May 20, 2010.

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• 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.

  Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  Ill Will, Racism, Prejudice

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• The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it was the liberal wing of the Democratic Party that ended segregation. The fact is that it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who gave hope to a nation that was in despair and could have slid into dictatorship. And the fact is, every Republican has much to learn from studying what the Democrats did right.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Fighting, Wings

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• Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.

  Diane Nash

  Emotional, Chicago, Stories

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• One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work. Whereas in the past children not only saw what their parents did for a living but even shared substantially in the task, many children nowadays have only a vague notion of the nature of the parent's job, and have had little or no opportunity to observe the parent, or for that matter any other adult, when he is fully engaged in his work.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Jobs, Children, Past

  Urie Bronfenbrenner (1973). “Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.”, Pocket

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

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Black, Race Relations

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.24, Modern Library

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• You have to be a whole, dignified, self-respecting person in order to be an English teacher or whatever kind of job your education would prepare you for, and I just knew that segregation was wrong, and I knew that I should not be going along with it. That I should resist it.

  Diane Nash

  Teacher, Jobs, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Pain, Men, United States

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1979). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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

  Norman Granz

  Jazz, Reason, Breaking Down

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• Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the final frontier of acceptable segregation. Our political correctness is positively Californian when it comes to race, creed, origin, and orientation. But we still condemn ourselves and others for this last intolerable offense in an annoyingly tolerant society.

  Joni Rodgers

  Race, Political, Prejudice

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• The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

  Richard Benjamin

  Atlanta, Class, People

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through it. I lived in it. I was of it.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Children, Gone, Way

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• There is a lot of gender segregation. You still have many poor women who work in women-only jobs. In the family, in most cases, only women have the double job of working outside the home and taking care of the family.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Jobs, Home, Work Out

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• Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

  Basmah bint Saud

  Country, Religious, Men

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• There is no scriptural basis for segregation. The ground at the foot of the cross is level, and it touches my heart when I see whites standing shoulder to shoulder with blacks at the cross.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Feet, Levels

  Billy Graham (2013). “Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith”, p.154, B&H Publishing Group

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• There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?

  Ben Harper

  God, Rooms, Separation

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• Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with
  'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food at Woolworth. If not for segregation, and the fact that we were all Negroes, we would have been served without incident. At our trial on March 17, 1960,
  Judge John Rudd ruled that our lawyers should
  'get off that race question.'

  Patricia Stephens Due

  Race, Order, Judging

  Tananarive Due, Patricia Stephens Due (2003). “Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights”, One World/Ballantine

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• Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion, you will discover that it endorsed slavery and quoted the Bible to approve it; the Pope even owned slaves.

  John Shelby Spong

  Kings, People, Church

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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

  John Shelby Spong

  North Carolina, Slavery, Grew Up

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how to treat their slaves. "Slaves, obey your masters. Masters, be kind to yourslaves." Paul was in favor of a kinder and gentler slavery; it never occurred to him to raise the question about whether slavery itself was immoral.

  John Shelby Spong

  People, Slavery, Addresses

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He advised them and advised the head of Howard University to create a good law school. And that inspired Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall in their path-breaking work on behalf of desegregation.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  School, Law, Government

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity - or he never sought the opportunity I should say - to work closely with African American lawyers. He was also a Southern Democrat, you know, at a time when both parties were supportive of segregation.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Party, Opportunity, Southern

  Source: www.slate.com

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• We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as certainly [Louis] Brandeis was, or many Democrats were on the question of segregation.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Book, Hook, Republican

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• Some Israeli politicians have proposed the transfer of Palestinians out of what is currently called Israel, either into the occupied territories, into Jordan or out into other Arab lands, with the idea that there would be no intermixing of Palestinian and Jewish Israelis or Palestinian and Jewish communities. But the idea of an absolute segregation is one that I find lamentable.

  Judith Butler

  Israel, Land, Ideas

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent in improving standards which lag behind to a large extent because of segregation,discrimination, and the legacy of slavery.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Thinking, Legacy, Lag

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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