“ In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segreg… George C. Wallace
“ In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly into his eyes and feel his heart beating with red blood; in a world where a social cigar or a cup of tea… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ Crossing a single street transformed the way people talked, determined the size and condition of the homes, the dimension and character of the dreams. Colson Whitehead
“ So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn’t nobody left except a real dark little girl with long hair standing by Eleanor. Dat’s where Ah wuz’s s’posed to be, but Ah cou… Zora Neale Hurston
“ One wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes of minorities, and the other can only elevate minorities into positions of pow… Garrance Franke-Ruta
“ I do not think I was a hothead—not then and not now. I thought I was right. I had read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bible. Segregation seemed evil from the time I was a b… Pat Conroy
“ We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that they hadimposed upon us. Manal al-Sharif
“ She took my papers, the papers that had followed me from the Khobar police station to jail, and pointed at a place where I was supposed to sign. On the paper there was a line for charges. In the blank… Manal al-Sharif
“ [O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination. John Lewis
“ The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was rid… Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper. A.E. Samaan
“ The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether today an admittedly far greater number requiring far le… Sergio de la Pava
“ Perhaps I can't escape the image that others have created for me, but if I don't try, I will never know if I can or not. Julian Houston
“ When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the moonlight like a blac… Clark Zlotchew
“ [Solitary confinement] is terrible. That is terrible. You're in a grave. You can't do anything. Everything's brought to you and you're in a room all day, except to come out of the showers. So when I w… Megan Sweeney
“ Because the drug war has been waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color, when drug offenders are released, they are generally returned to racially segregated ghetto communities--the places… Michelle Alexander
