#segregation

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

— Stanley Crouch

#dramatically #end #grand #however #irony

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

#black #black community #blacks #certain #community

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

From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed. ↗

— Bill Frist

#always #america #character #creed #did

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#come #education #public #public education #racial

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#evil #go #hospitals #know #segregation

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

If you want to make beautiful music,you must play the black note and the white notes together ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#beauty

The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether today an admittedly far greater number requiring far less talent can succeed. The real question is whether it's harder for the people in this audience to succeed be they extraordinary, average, or below average. If it is, and I think it obvious that it is, then that's untenable in a country that purports to provide equal opportunity for all. Now of course you'll dispute my claim that it is more difficult to succeed for them. You say the battle's over. I say not only is it not over but you yourself are stationed on the frontline of the battle and have been all these years. This room and the criminal justice system as a whole is the frontline. This is where modern-day segregation lives on. ↗

— Sergio De La Pava

#colorblind-racism #courts #criminal-justice #law #prison

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