Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"America preaches integration and practices segregation."
Segregation quotes
Segregation
36 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me."
Nat King Cole
Singer, Pianist
"Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything."
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"Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit..."
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"I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there."
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"I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for."
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"I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run."
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"My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil."
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"I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation."
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