Quotes tagged ‘Segregation’

“I just love listening to Wolfman. My Mom won't let me at home. Because he's a Negro. I think he's terrific.”

— George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck, Carol, Mackenzie Phillips, imdb.com

“[escorting Katherine to the Space Task Group] Skirts must be worn past the knee. Sweaters are preferred to blouses. No jewelry. A simple pearl necklace is the exception. Your supervisor is Mr. Al Harrison, Director of the Space Task Group. You’ll write research, proof calculations, so forth. Do not…”

— Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi, Vivian Mitchell, Kirsten Dunst, imdb.com

“If you look up the neighborhood I grew up in, it’s horrendous. It’s such a bad neighborhood, and it was so disturbing to be one of the few white families left in the community. And my parents never came to me and discussed it.”

— Howard Stern, rollingstone.com

“You know I can't give you the keys, right, babe?”

— Jordan Peele, Rose Armitage, Allison Williams, imdb.com

“[to his Asian companion] I hear this place is restricted, Wang, so don't tell 'em you're Jewish, okay?”

— Douglas Kenney, Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis, Al Czervik, Rodney Dangerfield, imdb.com

“Archie: All this celebrating just because one colored guy wants to leave the neighborhood. Mike: I thought you'd be the one leading the cheers.”

— Don Nicholl, Archie Bunker, Carroll O'Connor, imdb.com

“[Edith is sorting through laundry ruined at the coin Laundromat] Edith: Look at this! You must have forgot to separate the coloreds from the whites. Mike: [incredulous] Archie? Forget to separate the coloreds from the whites?”

— Bill Dana, Michael Stivic, Rob Reiner, imdb.com

“Archie: I think that if God had meant us to be together, He'd have put us together. But look what He done. He put you over in Africa, and He put the rest of us in all the white countries. Sammy Davis Jr.: Well, you must have told him where we were, 'cause somebody came and got us.”

— Elias Davis, Archie Bunker, Carroll O'Connor, imdb.com

“We say no to whites owning our land and they should go.… They can own companies and apartments…but not the soil. It is ours and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States…. There are white farmers who are still on the land…. That should never happen. They [whites] were…”

— Robert Mugabe, csmonitor.com

“Segregation, separation, according to Jesus, is the basis of continuous violence.”

— Bayard Rustin, afsc.org

“Separation, it seems to me, is the chief sin precisely because violence is automatically the result of separation and ostracism between individuals or groups or nations, and my point was that whenever there is such separation and such automatic violence it is naive to believe that you can deal with…”

— Bayard Rustin, blogcitylights.com

“For example, I have knowingly sat at the table… and in the front of a bus in the South with white people, aware of the fact that when I did so, I was bringing to the surface a fear in them which was in a sense more profound than if I had struck them, and this is in part due to the fact that if I had…”

— Bayard Rustin, blogcitylights.com

“The basic issue, however, is not political. It is moral and spiritual. For Christians it has to do with the scriptural teaching that all men, whatever their race or color, are children of one Father, created by him for an eternal destiny, and therefore of infinite worth....It has to do with the comm…”

— Bayard Rustin, huffingtonpost.com

“You know, I lived in this country at a time when we had segregation. I was in the middle of all the civil rights fights in the '60s and the '70s. And thank God we've gotten rid of official discrimination.”

— Walter Mondale, realclearpolitics.com

“I’m a strong pro-civil rights advocate; they were pushing against an open door in terms of the objective of civil rights and preventing any future lily white, segregated delegations.”

— Walter Mondale, repository.wustl.edu

“The view of how America speaks is reflected in our laws. And one of the laws is fair housing. It very clearly prohibits discrimination in the sale and rental of housing in America. It's been a sad fact of American life that the practice in many communities has been quite the opposite. That's why we…”

— Walter Mondale, npr.org

“Back home in Louisiana I had never seen black people who owned things. When I came to Detroit, I saw people own businesses. They had big homes. Just a lot of things I wasn't accustomed to. I just fell in love with the Tigers and knew this was the place I wanted to be.”

— Earl Wilson, thedeadballera.com

“I think that there is a crucial debate under way in American ghettos, and that debate involves a dispute about the basic decency of white America....This proposal which we call 'fair housing' is fundamental to that debate. Because the resolution of that issue I think depends more upon white America…”

— Walter Mondale, moses.law.umn.edu

“The image of the tumbledown slatboard shack in the rural South has been replaced by what is to my mind an even more regrettable, more terrible alternative—the filthy, freezing urban slum tenement. Added to the monumental problem of poverty in the cities is the totally related problem of segregated h…”

— Walter Mondale, moses.law.umn.edu

“There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the color of my skin.”

— Tiger Woods, washingtonpost.com