Against Segregation Quotes

#1. Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion, you will discover that it endorsed slavery and quoted the Bible to approve it; the Pope even owned slaves.

John Shelby Spong

#2. The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Dorothy Day

#3. Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?

Pat Buchanan

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

John Lewis

#5. Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it.

Malcolm X

#6. Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.

Helen Keller

#7. Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.

Guillermo Del Toro

#8. I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

Paul Wellstone

#10. You have no idea what a fairy circle is, do you? Which is shocking for a changeling child.

Kelley Armstrong

#11. The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

Walter Dean Myers

#12. What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

Paul Weyrich

#13. My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds.

Malcolm X

#14. Doesn't sunlight kill them? Doesn't it turn them to dust, or make them burst into flames or something?"
"Nope. Vampires tan, just like you and me. Well, just like you. I tend to bleach.

Derek Landy

#15. That's how I gained a lifelong fondness for repeating certain phrases beyond the point of all reason.

Roger Ebert

#16. 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

#17. 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.

Sonia Sotomayor

#18. In Japanese culture it is said that if a vase is accidently broken and then glued back together, it becomes even more beautiful... regardless of its defects. It can be the same with people.

Jose N. Harris

#19. Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the beginning of the extermination of the Jews. That's why my family left Germany in 1938.

Henry A. Kissinger

#20. I think it's difficult to forget things that are unresolved.

Chris Van Allsburg

#21. Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton