#segregation

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

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were. ↗

— Roger Wilkins

#black #black community #blacks #certain #community

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#ago #during #equality #forty-one #ideal

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#come #education #public #public education #racial

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#evil #go #hospitals #know #segregation

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever! ↗

— George C. Wallace

#now #segregation #tomorrow

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#draw #dust #feet #forever #gauntlet

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#enslavement #far-reaching #goes #history #most

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#ban #basis #fourteenth #history #matter

If you want to make beautiful music,you must play the black note and the white notes together ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#beauty