Top 26 Quotes About Segregation And Discrimination
#1. [O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.
John Lewis
#2. I'm not saying to you that every element of segregation and discrimination and second-class citizenship has changed. But in the political sense, the world has changed. People now who want to vote can vote.
John Doar
#3. When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.
John Lewis
#4. I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.
Jenny Holzer
#5. The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
John Lewis
#6. Leadership is not only about producing results or measuring success with statistics. Leadership is doing something with significance that makes families, organizations, societies, nations, and the world a better place before you die.
Farshad Asl
#7. I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.
Malcolm X
#8. I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.
Mackenzie Rosman
#10. While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.
Bruce Hornsby
#11. I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to his colleagues in the Senate and the American people that he is absolutely opposed to any segregation in any form and racism in any form and discrimination in any form.
John McCain
#12. Discrimination and segregation are evidence of lower intelligence.
Erik Martin Willen
#13. Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper.
A.E. Samaan
#14. Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?
Pat Buchanan
#16. Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist.
Auliq Ice
#17. Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
Rand Paul
#18. You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.
Peter Carey
#20. Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance.
Auliq Ice
#21. My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.
John Lewis
#22. Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.
George Takei
#23. It seems to me that the Iraqis laid down a lot of the arms that we gave to them. So that doesn't seem to be the solution.
Brad Wenstrup
#24. After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.
Pankaj Mishra
#25. With wrong people, there has to be a choice, to stay with them and go down with them or reject them and suffer alone.
Auliq Ice
#26. George had been surprised by my ability to leave him. He had not seen that in me.
Augusten Burroughs
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