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Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

George Wallace

We cannot continue to sweep the problems of segregation and discrimination under the rug.

Thomas Sugrue

There's nothing healthy about segregation.

Michael Gargano

If a black boy in Montgomery, Ala., in the '50s can see (segregation) and be willing to take a step - and, with a whole lot of help from a whole lot of people all along the way, has been able to make a difference - you can do the same.

Fred Gray

I don't tell them how dangerous (segregation) was. I tell them how all-consuming it was.

Dean Rowley

I do feel heartsick that the inequalities, if anything, are worse today than they were when I wrote 'Savage Inequalities,' and that segregation is now back at the point where it was when I published my first book.

Jonathan Kozol

If the alternative to a temporary race segregation is a riot, where people get hurt, then yeah, you can do that.

Margo Schlanger

There are many buses ahead of us yet. As we continue to confront inequality and segregation in our country, we still have the stellar example of Rosa Parks' gracious activism to guide and inspire us.

C. Dixon Osburn

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

Coretta Scott King

I try to push and pull my Hispanic people into the community. I tell them learn the language, learn the customs, be comfortable to live here. I never support segregation. I want integration.

Amilcar Arroyo

For them, it's all about creating a level playing field. But when it comes to blacks, it's segregation.

Margaret Parsons

Quiet example demonstrated to millions new ways to confront the evil of segregation.

Julian Bond

I guess it's just never occurred to me that there'd be any opposition to it. I'm 44 years old, and I've never been a part of any segregation or race problems or whatever.

Mike Hubbard

We are sleepwalking to segregation.

Trevor Phillips

It's a legacy of segregation. Racial covenants are just a sentence in a long list of documents. It's kind of a standard language.

Jim Draeger

The organizers of the International Freedom Center say that in order to understand 9/11, we must see exhibits about slavery, segregation and genocide and its impact around the world. This is a history that we all should know and learn, but not here -- not on sacred ground.

Michael Burke

It can never again become what it was, ... because you would have to return to the days of segregation.

Maynard Jackson

Brown does not mandate integrated schools. Instead, Brown mandates no segregated schools. Segregation may be chosen by residential patterns.

Dave Douglas

There's always been Native Americans in the area and the region and it's time that we have a place here in town. It's about bringing people of all different cultures together. It's about integration not segregation.

Lance Smith

You learn what they had to endure to build this enterprise, but you also learn what an incredible enterprise they were able to sculpt out of the hardships of segregation.

Bob Kendrick

Anything the court does that is controversial is going to be in danger as long as it's controversial. The reason why racial segregation in schools is not going to come back is not because all nine justices think Brown is right. It's because the country has accepted that it is right.

Michael Dorf

It's January, and soon we'll be celebrating the life of Dr. King and remembering his dream. So, it's always hurtful to civil rights workers and for African-Americans in particular when we continue to be the target of these kinds of incidents. Racial segregation is still a problem, and this shows that there is still a need for affirmative action programs in Michigan.

Maryanne Lee

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!

George Wallace

It's called administrative segregation.

Larry Todd

In the next 5-10 years, property owners will increasingly adopt cost segregation to minimize federal income taxes.

Patrick O'connor

I did not set out to write a controversial book, ... But no matter where I went in the state, I ran into the question of race. The 1940s and most of the 1950s were a time of accepted segregation.

Taylor Bell

Sadly, racial segregation in our community remains an issue. We continue to reach out to people of color, but I'm afraid it will take a long time to overcome the divisiveness of the past that is inherent in our culture.

Chuck Bowen

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

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.

Bruce Hornsby

There's a natural inclination, as humans, to want to be with individuals who are similar to us, and who have interests similar to ours, but that's different from institutional segregation.

Jane Ivery

That means this is all part of a reparations mentality, that we owe something special [to African Americans] because of slavery, segregation, whatever. I understand that mentality, but I don't accept it.

Chester Finn

The story of Jackie Robinson is bigger than baseball. Integration at that time was a radical idea; segregation was standard and it was the law.

Bill Schumann

Michigan is not at all alone. Detroit gets held out as a very segregated city. If I leave you with any message, it is the whole of America is premised on segregation.

Sheryl Cashin

I hope people understand how stupid segregation is. People should never judge a book by its color. Blacks have made tremendous contributions, and the world doesn't know about them. Black history should be integrated with American history.

Eugene Richardson