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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

Segregation has no place in the education system.

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

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