(37 quotes found)
“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
“We are sleepwalking our way to segregation,”
Trevor Phillips
“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
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!”
George Wallace
“Sadly, racial segregation in our community remains an issue. We continue to reach out to people of color, but I'm afraid it will take a long time to overcome the divisiveness of the past that is inherent in our culture.”
Chuck Bowen
“All murder comes from hate and all people need to be protected under the law. We're not going to segregate Americans for political ploys like the Democrats want us to do.”
Chris Paulitz
“(My dad) had a great time (umpiring). He lived through a lot. He lived through the woes of segregation, and there's not a drop of bitterness from him or the other men I've interviewed throughout the years.”
Byron Motley
“They have to be segregated from society to protect society, and get the best kind of treatment we can give them. And we should house them in a way that is humane, recognizing that what they did is different from those who killed for money or out of anger or whatever.”
David Haynes
“As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.”
Cass Sunstein
“Brown does not mandate integrated schools. Instead, Brown mandates no segregated schools. Segregation may be chosen by residential patterns.”
Dave Douglas
