Top Segregation Quotes
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
Cass Sunstein
We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
Cab Calloway
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.
Jonathan Kozol
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
Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
Paul Harris
George C. Wallace 
Strom Thurmond 
Joseph E. Stiglitz 
Maggie Gallagher 
Clarence Thomas 
Cab Calloway 
John Deacon 
Dorothy Day All Segregation Quotes
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
Cass Sunstein 
68% of people like this quote
We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
Cab Calloway
62% of people like this quote
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.
Jonathan Kozol
58% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
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.
Roger Wilkins
53% of people like this quote
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!
George C. Wallace
53% of people like this quote
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
Jeanne Moreau
52% of people like this quote
Popular Segregation Authors
Jeanne MoreauJesse JacksonMajor OwensCarter G. WoodsonMichael N. CastlePaul HarrisStanley CrouchJohn DeaconMaggie GallagherBill FristDorothy DayJack Kingston
Jonathan KozolClarence ThomasLeonard BoswellShelby FooteJoseph E. StiglitzCab CallowayEd SmithGeorge C. WallaceStrom ThurmondBruce HornsbyCass SunsteinRoger Wilkins
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