Quotes about Segregated

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia. Votes: 2

It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing. Votes: 2

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past. Votes: 2

A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo. Votes: 2

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated. Votes: 2

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration. Votes: 2

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music. Votes: 2

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal. Votes: 2

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people. Votes: 2

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years. Votes: 2

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever. Votes: 2

Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night. Votes: 2

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking. Votes: 2

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students. Votes: 2

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids. Votes: 2

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was. Votes: 2

Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.' Votes: 2

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from. Votes: 2

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions. Votes: 2

Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person. Votes: 2

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books. Votes: 2

Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade. Votes: 2

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me. Votes: 2

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it. Votes: 2

Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they'd be like, 'Go get that guy Gubler. He'll be in your student film.' I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films. Votes: 2

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. Votes: 2

We need segregated buses... This is Obama's America. Votes: 0

Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities. Votes: 0

I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I've never seen any place like it. Votes: 0

The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life. Votes: 0

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds. Votes: 0

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine. Votes: 0

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man. Votes: 0

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment. Votes: 0

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning. Votes: 0

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated. Votes: 0

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated. Votes: 0

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver. Votes: 0

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated. Votes: 0

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment. Votes: 0

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change. Votes: 0

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated. Votes: 0

Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity. Votes: 0

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King. Votes: 0

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality. Votes: 0

Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship. Votes: 0

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available. Votes: 0

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country. Votes: 0

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio. Votes: 0

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe it's more segregated between those different disciplines I think. Votes: 0

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think. Votes: 0

I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education. Votes: 0

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me. Votes: 0

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools. Votes: 0

If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore. Votes: 0

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. Votes: 0

In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get. Votes: 0

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men. Votes: 0

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool. Votes: 0

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment. Votes: 0

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child. Votes: 0

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years. Votes: 0

I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If anybody knows a racist, I do. Pat Buchanan ain't no racist. Votes: 0

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time. Votes: 0

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life. Votes: 0

It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism! Votes: 0

Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the beginning of the extermination of the Jews. That's why my family left Germany in 1938. Votes: 0