Segragation Quotes

“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means. You don’t know what’s happening on the other side of the wall, because you don’t want to know.”
― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro

“People nowadays talk about the world's problems like they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they're told and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they're the experts of everything.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Legal segregation was long gone, but a strong tradition prevailed in both communities that it was best to live separately.”
― Richard Grant, Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

“The issue of tribalism, racism, segregation of whichever form and manner it beholds, and separatist arguments...All these, are toxic elements in our living as a people.”
― DON SANTO