#greg

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. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#congregation #emotions #experience #fervor #heard

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

— Coretta Scott King

#black #forced #i #i believe #people

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#age #contemporaries #how #hungry #i

I am tired of angry feminists. I like my women happy, gregarious... and bathed. ↗

— Evan Sayet

#angry #bathed #feminists #gregarious #happy

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#country #court #decision #down #education

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever. ↗

— Ed Smith

#experienced #grandparents #growing #growing up #had

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. ↗

— Ed Smith

#because #beyond #blacks #burden #civil

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#civil rights #concerned #generation #i #like

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#especially #original #people #power #property