Nuseir Yassin Quotes

Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.

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.

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.

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.

Although the race problem may seem to lie dormant at times, it continually exists, lives on and on and sometimes rages with all the fury of a jungle beast. It gnaws at the very vitals of our existence, in time it will sap our strength and destroy the greatness of our American way of life unless solved properly and permanently.

The scars of racism still remain deeply imbedded in America.

It’s a sordid business this divvying us up by race.

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

Segregation is not exclusion.

We are in the year 2013, and racism is still amongst us and is still a problem. It's not simply an argument for the History Channel or something that belongs to the past or something that only happens in other countries.

Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.