#segregation

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

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

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble. ↗

— Paul Harris

#anything #brought #except #never #segregation

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#before #came #down #history #many

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

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

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#brutally #designed #fits #harmony #institution

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#ever #live #power #segregation #start

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