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Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!

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.

I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean more equality. Even when there was segregation, there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us.

The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

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

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

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.