#greg

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever. ↗

— Ed Smith

#experienced #grandparents #growing #growing up #had

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects. ↗

— Ed Smith

#because #beyond #blacks #burden #civil

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#civil rights #concerned #generation #i #like

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#especially #original #people #power #property

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#even #fair #get #grocery #grocery store

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments. ↗

— Randall Terry

#any #churches #commandments #congregation #country

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#bad #body #breath #every #fight

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

— Stanley Crouch

#dramatically #end #grand #however #irony

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around. ↗

— Rob Walton

#congregation #gives #his #jesus #life

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#being #gregarious #hills #i #i love