Segregation Quotes

New York (in 1964 and `65) was wonderful and so on, and L.A. was also kind of interesting. But outside of that we found it the most repressive society, very prejudiced in every way. There was still segregation. And the attitudes were fantastically old-fashioned. Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness. It`s changed fantastically over the last 30 years. But so has everything else.

It`s hard to remember just what that period(the sixties) was like, but I can assure you it was extremely different from now. There was attitude, things you take for granted now they wouldn`t then: social values, the way people mix, racial segregation, sexual segregation and orientation, the opportunities people would or wouldn`t have, class and money. And the list goes on.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

In many ways, history is marked as `before` and `after` Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

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

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.

We didn`t have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.

The organizers of the International Freedom Center say that in order to understand 9/11, we must see exhibits about slavery, segregation and genocide and its impact around the world. This is a history that we all should know and learn, but not here -- not on sacred ground,

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

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

From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.

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

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

In Massachusetts we tend to think about segregation and racial disparity as a southern phenomenon, alien to our abolitionist New England roots.

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.

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

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.

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.

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.