#segregation

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation. ↗

— Major Owens

#greatest #our #segregation

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two. ↗

— Major Owens

#because #best #civil #civil rights #clear

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#end #even #fought #lives #lost

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

#before #came #down #history #many

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

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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

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#even #fair #get #grocery #grocery store

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#bad #body #breath #every #fight

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

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