Nina Simone Quotes

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

Negro members shall be treated as white members

The Army is not out to make any social reforms. The Army will put men of different races in different companies. It will change that policy when the Nation as a whole changes it.

The time to end racial segregation in the South is upon us now.

The United States Office of Education has likewise been guilty of spreading racial equality propaganda. In a report to the press, Dr. John W. Studebaker, head of the Office of Education, and his Negro assistant, Dr. Ambrose Caliver, who is racial adviser in the office of Education, called upon the colleges and universities of the South to open their doors to Negro students

The more conservative element of Negroes differ from those who hold the most radical views in opposition to segregation only in terms of time and technique of its elimination …. all Negroes must condemn any form of segregation based on race, creed or color anywhere in our nation

It's good that segregation is over.

It's what the people wanted at the time, but the country could not be half-segregated and half-integrated, just as it could not be half-slave and half-free back in the 1800s.

As the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case has shown us, separate is not always equal.

I used to say, 'We've always had integration in the South... we just want it now in the daytime.

Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.

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

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.