Segregation Quotes - Page 10

• Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able to do anything, anybody not able to do what they can do. The daily lessons of exclusion, having hand-me-down books in schools, of seeing ambulances turn away and not give health care for people lying in the streets who are migrant workers. Everything I do today stems from that segregated existence.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Lying, Book

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them?

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Self, Order, People

  Zora Neale Hurston (2002). “Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Growing Up, Thinking, Atlanta

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.

  Lillian Smith

  Christian, Children, Home

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• Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Names, Justice, Democracy

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• The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

  Ed Markey

  School, Past, Today

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• But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

  Imogen Poots

  New York, Real, Different

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• In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.

  Carter G. Woodson

  School, Black, Taught

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.4, Book Tree

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• If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate us, we'd see some action. Talk is cheap, if white people didn't want to have a South African situation ... there'd be none. If white people in America didn't want segregation, there'd be none ... it is the man who allows him to lynch who is never seen.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, White

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• ... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market with the crimes of slavery, segregation, colonialism and genocide; piss me off and I'll add fascism and the Nazis.

  Greg Erwin

  Long, Democracy, Colonialism

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• I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?

  Barbra Streisand

  Children, Women, Feminist

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• There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Giving Up, People, Black History

  "Three Ways of Meeting Oppression". Essay by Martin Luther King, Jr., taken from MLK's book "Stride Toward Freedom", 1958.

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• When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Art, Terror, Works Of Art

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