194 Quotes About Segregation

Tears speak the same tongue wherever they are shed. Smiles speak the same tongue wherever they are cracked. They don't discriminate between humans, why would you!

They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves.

I am usually able to tolerate all kinds of victims of indoctrination except those who have been infected with xenophobia, racism, or homophobia.

I am a force of nature, I don't have nationality. Does the Everest have nationality? Does the Amazon have nationality? Does the Grand Canyon have nationality? They all belong to the world. Likewise, no matter where I live, I belong to the world. And no matter where you live, you belong to the world. Every human belongs to the whole world, for that very universal belonging is what makes humanity human.

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

One can't be free, if one knows not that one is in bondage.

So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn’t nobody left except a real dark little girl with long hair standing by Eleanor. Dat’s where Ah wuz’s s’posed to be, but Ah couldn’t recognize dat dark chile as me. So ah ast, ‘where is me? Ah don’t see me.’… ‘Aw, aw! Ah’m colored!’Den dey all laughed real hard. But before Ah seen de picture Ah thought Ah wuz just like the rest.

From the 1930s through the 1960s, black people across the country were largely cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market through means both legal and extralegal. Chicago whites employed every measure, from 'restrictive covenants' to bombings, to keep their neighborhoods segregated.

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.