#segregation

We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#club #cotton #free #open #segregation

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#african americans #backward #black #colleges #days

Segregation has no place in the education system. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#place #segregation #system

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#battle #community #goes #legal #segregation

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses. ↗

— John Deacon

#apartheid #beaches #bit #buses #i

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

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#final #him #how #just #overcome

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble. ↗

— Paul Harris

#anything #brought #except #never #segregation

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should. ↗

— Bruce Hornsby

#change #discrimination #housing #millions #people

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation. ↗

— Major Owens

#greatest #our #segregation