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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!
Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.
America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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.
Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.