#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

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

#black #forced #i #i believe #people

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

People who swear on the old Southern traditions don't know what the hell they are. I think of boll weevils and hook worms. [Look Magazine interview 25 April 1961] ↗

— William B. Hartsfield

#desegregation #georgia #integration #racism #south

While stationed in Fort Jackson, I experienced racial prejudice for the first time and came to the understanding that humans are not born with prejudice, but learn prejudice. Back home in South Dakota, I only knew one black American. The Scandinavians in my community treated him just like any other Swede; my family considered him a friend. My parents taught me, and I believed that all men are equal because God created all men in His image. One day during a week end furlough, I boarded a crowded city bus. As I walked down the aisle, I looked for an open seat. Looking towards the rear of the bus, I noticed three huge, young black men sitting on a bench in the back. I decided to squeeze onto the bench with them. As I sat down, a woman said in a very loud voice, "What is that white soldier doing in our part of the bus?" Neither my life experiences nor my education prepared me for what I experienced walking the streets of Fort Jackson. I saw water fountains for whites only, barbershops for blacks only, and separation for most aspects of Southern living. I discovered that the feelings of prejudice ran deeply amongst many of the people that we encountered. In fact, the blacks even trained separately from the whites during our military preparation, even though we all worked towards defending the United States of America. ↗

— Oliver Omanson

#black-americans #black-soldiers #bus-segregation #fort-jackson #racial-prejudice

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#music #segregation #music

From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed. ↗

— Bill Frist

#always #america #character #creed #did

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#became #beginning #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#awful #basically #college #come #equal

Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that needs asking. But they do not ask what can be done about the values of the people who have segregated these communities. There is no academic study of the pathological detachment of the very rich... ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#poverty-wealth #school-reform #segregation #education