We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. – Jonathan Kozol
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
Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it. – Bobby Seale
The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader. – Bayard Rustin
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. – Cass Sunstein
We should not forget that in the ’60s, George Wallace’s motto was ‘segregation forever,’ and that he did nothing to deter bombings and other acts of violence and, by his actions, condoned them. – Coretta Scott King
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
We didn’t have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free. – Cab Calloway
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. – Malcolm X
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
What we cannot deny is that there’s an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism. – Maajid Nawaz
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country. – Robert Dallek
I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there. – Randall Kennedy
I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I’ve been called that… Integrating that bus wouldn’t mean more equality. Even when there was segregation, there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us. – Rosa Parks
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. – Stanley Crouch
