Quotes About The Jim Crow Laws

#1. The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

Sue Grafton

#2. Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.

Michelle Alexander

#3. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

#4. I shove my reading matter back into my messenger bag (it's a novel about a private magician for hire in Chicago - your taxpayer pounds at work) and go to stand in the doorway.

Charles Stross

#5. Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#6. The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. A number of laws that are said to protect citizens harkens back to "Jim Crow" era.

J.C. Phillips

#8. Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.

Robert Casey

#9. 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

#10. You never know how much time you have with someone.

Lisa Jakub

#11. In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#12. The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

John Lubbock

#13. While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

Boyle Roche

#14. The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

Rand Paul

#15. We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do ... Bram Stoker.

Steven Dietz

#16. Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

Rosa Parks

#17. Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project contained a good blend of creative sustainable design elements. The solar room for heating and ventilation was particularly creative and convincing.

Edward Mazria

#18. My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States.

Gioconda Belli

#19. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?

Fred Rogers

#20. I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.

Ron Paul