#segregation

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#ago #during #equality #forty-one #ideal

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#became #beginning #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#doubt #honest #mind #no doubt #northern

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#ban #basis #fourteenth #history #matter

We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#club #cotton #free #open #segregation

Segregation has no place in the education system. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#place #segregation #system

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#battle #community #goes #legal #segregation

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

#apartheid #beaches #bit #buses #i

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#believe #believes #everybody #grow #grow up

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

#final #him #how #just #overcome