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Earl Warren1 quote
To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone... We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. — Earl Warren · 1954George Wallace1 quote
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever! — George Wallace · 1963Henry Billings Brown1 quote
Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation. — Henry Billings Brown · 1896John Marshall Harlan1 quote
The arbitrary separation of citizens on the basis of race while they are on a public highway is a badge of servitude wholly inconsistent with the civil freedom and the equality before the law established by the Constitution... We boast of the freedom enjoyed by our people above all other peoples. But it is difficult to reconcile that boast with a state of the law which, practically, puts the brand of servitude and degradation upon a large class of our fellow citizens, our equals before the law. The thin disguise of "equal" accommodations for passengers in railroad coaches will not mislead anyone, nor atone for the wrong this day done. — John Marshall Harlan · 1896Langston Hughes1 quote
I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me. — Langston Hughes · 1943Rosa Parks1 quote
I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so. — Rosa Parks · 1967William McKinley1 quote
Lynchings must not be tolerated in a great and civilized country like the United States; courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the law. — William McKinley · 1897