#segregated

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#clause #enacted #equal #equal protection #galleries

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people. ↗

— John Goodman

#insurance #medicaid #ought #people #plan

Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabia #belief #completely #day #every

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival. ↗

— Angela Davis

#country #during #early #grew #how

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#believe #believes #everybody #grow #grow up

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#apartheid #been #conditions #experienced #housing

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#america #born #call #came #grandmother

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#america #best #blacks #country #course

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship. ↗

— Barney Frank

#hour #king #luther #martin #martin luther

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#american cities #children #cities #cross #families