Quotes About Segregation

Prisoners of war had] definitely more privileges. They could go anywhere in town they wanted; we could only go in the black section. And of course, as I said, on the train, they could ride in the back of the train or anywhere on the train they wanted, but we had to get in the car right behind the coal car or the baggage car, whichever one was there. And buses, they sat in front and we sat in the back.

In September 1959, Graham was about to begin a crusade in Little Rock. ... 'A lot of business people in Little Rock were worried about some sort of great encounter," Clinton recalled later, 'because racial tensions were very high. And they asked Billy Graham to agree to give this crusade to a segregated audience. And he said if they insisted on that he would not come, that they were all children of God, he wanted to lead everyone to Christ. He would not do it.

When it comes to hiring someone for a job, "discrimination on the basis of [political] party was much stronger than discrimination on the basis of race." An information economy segregates on ideas and not on genetics.

We had two dead white girls in a city that was six-sevenths black.

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.

Although Brazil never practised the racial segregation that marred the United States or South Africa, many of the poor in today's Brazil are of darker skin than the better-off.

for a variety of reasons, US citizens are increasingly likely to live in all-poor or all-rich neighborhoods and much less likely to live in communities where they would ever even have the chance of becoming friends with someone from a different class.

Men they had been trained to regard as subhuman were now their representatives in Washington, not to mention their governors, judges, sheriffs, and schoolmasters. In reaction, the region saw the flourishing of domestic terrorist groups like the Red Shirts in South Carolina, the White League in Louisiana, and the White Liners in Mississippi. Violence became part of everyday politics.

Kill a Mockingbird (1962), a classic portrait of the legacy of slavery and racial segregation in the South.

They'd separated the boys from the girls on the fifth day; it seemed obvious, when they worked out the girls were doing it. Already there are parents telling their boys not to go out alone, not to stray too far. "Once you've seen it happen," says a gray-faced woman on TV. "I saw a girl in the park doing that to a boy for no reason, he was bleeding from the eyes. The eyes. Once you've seen that happen, no mom would let her boys out of her sight.

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

apartheid turned many otherwise law-abiding citizens into criminals.

In the Afrikaner's worldview, apartheid and the church went hand in hand.

The major event facing the country in 1958 was the general election – 'general' only in the sense that three million whites could participate, but none of the thirteen million Africans.

made a point of sitting in a Whites Only chair in the Whites Only waiting room.

He led the way past the main house away from the slave cabins and other buildings, away from the small slave children who chased each other and shouted and didn't understand yet that they were slaves.

I knew I had strong feelings about the war against fascism. But, I also had strong feelings against fighting in a racially segregated army

Harriet was reminded of Doamna Flöhr's claim that the exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded.

Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.

But the truth was that most residents still lived in neighborhoods circumscribed by religion, and more than 90 percent of children in Northern Ireland continued to attend segregated elementary schools.

During the height of the government enforcement of the Civil Rights Act, some segregated townships filled in their municipal pools rather than let nonwhite kids share in the perverse joy of peeing in the water.

It's like the specter of segregation has brought the city of Dickens back together again." I decided to give my new career as City Planner in Charge of Restoration and Segregation another six months. If things didn't work out, I could always fall back on being black.

separate and not quite equal, but infinitely better off than ever before.

Who was I kidding? I'm a farmer, and farmers are natural segregationists. We separate the wheat from the chaff. I'm not Rudolf Hess, P. W. Botha, Capitol Records, or present-day U.S. of A. Those motherfuckers segregate because they want to hold on to power. I'm a farmer: we segregate in an effort to give every tree, every plant, every poor Mexican, every poor nigger, a chance for equal access to sunlight and water; we make sure every living organism has room to breathe.