Top 25 Segregation Quotes of 36 - Page 2

I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.

I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.

Running, Long, Segregation

Source: www.motherjones.com

Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?

Pat Buchanan

Christian, Discrimination, Segregation

I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Believe, Segregation, Breakdown

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Evil, Segregation, Ministers

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

Marian Wright Edelman

Challenges, Segregation

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

Jonathan Kozol

Children, Evil, Segregation

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

John Shelby Spong

North Carolina, Slavery, Segregation

Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality.

Gwen Ifill

Kids, Income, Segregation

Source: www.pbs.org

In the segregated South, education was almost like armor. It was a way to put yourself in a category where even with the slings and arrows and humiliations of racism and segregation, somehow you had better control of the situation. I always said my parents understood that you might not be able to control your circumstances, but they and their parents believed that you could control your reaction to your circumstances.

Condoleezza Rice

Racism, Parent, Segregation