Quotes of: Segregated Keyword

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

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

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

John Henrik Clarke

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

Lance Reddick

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.

Samuel P. Huntington

If Nepal is to become a new Nepal, she must first become free from ethnic segregation.

Santosh Kalwar

As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.

Robert Reich

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

Anna Deavere Smith

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

Jonathan Kozol

I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into that category, it means you're working. So that's good!

John C. McGinley

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

Barney Frank

Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.

Bobby Seale

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

Jonathan Kozol

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

Scar Tissue

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

Stanley Crouch

Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.

Benjamin E. Mays

Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences.

Jerry Moran

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

Jonathan Kozol

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

My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our count...

Faye Wattleton

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

Clarence Thomas