“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
“Brown does not mandate integrated schools. Instead, Brown mandates no segregated schools. Segregation may be chosen by residential patterns.”
Dave Douglas
“Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.”
Coretta Scott King
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!”
George Wallace
“We are sleepwalking our way to segregation,”
Trevor Phillips
“I lived through the era that they talked about. I was a product of segregation. I know how hard they work to improve the life for all Americans. I'm a beneficiary of their legacy.”
Tina Miller
“They were preparing to start moving the inmates over for breakfast. We had them segregated. The Latino inmates were going to exit and go to breakfast. During that movement, the initial reports indicate that the Latinos began to attack white inmates.”
Vernell Crittendon
