Jonathan Kozol Quotes

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

Apartheid is alive and well and it lives in our schools, and I'm sad to say it lives in the halls of the State legislature.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil.

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

Segregation is a disease of white people, not of colored people.

Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.

No Negro, mulatto, or Indian shall from and after the publication of this act bear any office ecclesiastical, civil or military, or be in any place of public trust or power, within this her majesty's colony and dominion of Virginia

Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

When I was born in 1959, the hospital in which I arrived had separate floors for black babies and white babies, and it was then illegal for blacks and whites to marry in many states.

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.

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.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.

The U. S, Social Security Act not only takes the Afro-American for a ride, but aids immediately in perpetuating his inferior status, What we see here, as in most other 'liberal' legislation, in a further stratifying of the Negro at the bottom of the ladder of life. .

I beg that some shadow of a colour bar, some little inequality between white and black before the law be retained.

You have no understanding of what it is to live in a community surcharged with an idle, dissolute, vicious, ignorant negro population just emerged from slavery.