194 Quotes About Segregation

Give me your sleep and comfort, I'll give you assimilation.Give me your blood and sweat, I'll give you ascension.

I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it.

Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. These discriminatory barriers were designed to encourage lower-class whites to retain a sense of superiority over blacks, making it far less likely that they would sustain interracial political alliances aimed at toppling the white elite.

Stagnated water breeds disease, when in motion it breathes life. Stagnated mind breeds segregation, when in motion it breaks divide.

Only when you start questioning injustice, you start being human. Only when you start questioning inequality, you start being human. Only when you start questioning prejudice, you start being human. Only when you start questioning discrimination, you start being human.

If you choose not to speak up and stay deaf, dumb and blind instead, then take this oath - "all bigots, fundamentalists and sectarianists are my bosom friends - I shall always be faithful to them - I shall always stand by them, no matter how inhuman they behave - and I shall always do my best to promote their atrocities by maintaining my silence in the face of prejudice, hatred and inhumanism".

Stand up and speak up loud - "I am the pillar of justice - I am the pillar of courage - I am the pillar of honor - I am the pillar of action without rage. No injustice can brew while I am standing - no discrimination can pester while I am walking - no hate can spread while I am present - no prejudice can prevail while I am still breathing.

Animals care for caste, creed and color, humans care for humanity.

Light knows no bigotry, wind knows no discrimination, rain knows no snobbery, crops know no segregation.