I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
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Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!
quote by George C. Wallace
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Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
quote by Strom Thurmond
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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
quote by Cab Calloway
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Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
quote by Paul Harris
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
quote by Major Owens
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Supression, Its Evil Lurking At The Compost Pit
he was in grade three, neat and clean
and well taken cared of,
his tv shows screened
kissing scenes a taboo
and sexist language strictly filtered,
movies prohibited and
loose behavior restrained
christian boy in an exclusive
religious school of st. vincent's in a
small city, where girls are on the other
side of the gate, where the boys
look for them like some hidden gems,
to me that is segregation,
a supression of my right to be me
as a boy and for me to see girls
and have fun with them,
it was not easy, but there was this
incident which i could not really forget
and perhaps justifies my rebellion
for what is evil
in segregation for what is wrong
with supression,
my classmates, all boys, hid themselves
in the compost pit and rolled down their
trousers, their eyes like fire lighting
the centerfold of the Playgirl magazine
sometime in 1964.
i was the little christian boy
raised in the strictest tradition
neat and clean and feeling
so ousted.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
quote by Jeanne Moreau
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Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
quote by Martin Luther King
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We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
quote by Carter G. Woodson
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And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
quote by Carter G. Woodson
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Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
quote by Martin Luther King
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I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.
quote by Joseph E. Stiglitz
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As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
quote by Cass Sunstein
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
quote by Nat King Cole
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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.
quote by Bruce Hornsby
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In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were.
quote by Roger Wilkins
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In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
quote by Jesse Jackson
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I Belong To This Group Of Men
i belong to this group of men with eyes
that look like full moons gazing at some stars
not just seeing the glitter but
minding the faults as well of the lights that sometime fail
and then mete the penalties for failing to live up
to the demands of light and orbit
against darkness and the bad things that sometimes
loneliness can inflict upon us
we are human
we believe in rules that we make and we impose the standards
of our actions
i belong to this group of men tasked to measure
the value of each man
his strengths and his weaknesses
the chambers where the rules are laid
the hammers that must be be banged
the souls that must be made to suffer
the segregation of those unfit
from these society of fools
i belong to this group of self-righteous men
for years and years i will be here
not counting the cost of my strangeness
this alienation from day to day
this segregation of me
this falling and falling and falling
far from you i have no feelings anymore
i am all mind
i am broken i am all mind i am looking for the images
of softness
and gentleness and loftiness
i long for the humility of sinfulness
teach me how can i be human again?
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.
quote by John Deacon
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