Quotes About Segregation

In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.

You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home.

When I was 15 years old in 1955, I heard of Rosa Parks. I heard the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on our radio.

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.

a ban on a Coney Island attraction known as "Negro Ball Dodging," in which whites hurled baseballs at Black men's heads as they appeared in the openings of a cloth or wooden facade.

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.

I vividly remember segregation - separate schools, sitting in the balcony at the movie theater, being barred from the public swimming pool.

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

Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test.

There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end segregation. What changed things was the rule of law, the courts. Brown v. Board of Education was ushered in by a movement, but it was a legal decision.

2021 is starting to look like 1961 - a segregated America.

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.

My mother was born into a segregated America. How crazy is that?

I'm the son of a Black man who was born in the segregated South.

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King.

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

Segregation is a problem not just in my country but in every country.

The stage is the last bastion of segregation.

I come up in a segregated 1943 atmosphere of segregation.

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.

Separate but equal does not work.