Segregation Quotes

“In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.”

“Segregation has no place in the education system.”

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

“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 is a word of the past. Unity is the key to a peaceful future.”

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

“Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper.”

“To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to die in segregation and not have one single person who loved, mentored or guided me convey that there was any loss.”

“For several years, while I searched for, found, and studied black women writers, I deliberately shut O'Connor out, feeling almost ashamed that she had reached me first. And yet, even when I no longer read her, I missed her, and realized that though the rest of America might not mind, having endured it so long, I would never be satisfied with a segregated literature. I would have to read Zora Hurston and Flannery O'Connor, Nella Larsen and Carson McCullers, Jean Toomer and William Faulkner, before I could begin to feel well read at all.”