#segregation

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble. ↗

— Paul Harris

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While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should. ↗

— Bruce Hornsby

#change #discrimination #housing #millions #people

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

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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

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

— Joseph Stiglitz

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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

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were. ↗

— Roger Wilkins

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Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#music #segregation #music