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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.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

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.

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

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.