Ayelet Shaked Quotes

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.

I couldn't see why a black man wasn't allowed to drink out of the same water fountain or sit in the same bus or go to the same schools as a white guy.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

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.

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

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

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.

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.

We can't ignore the fact that this country has a legacy of racism....We cannot be a leader in the 21st century if a significant portion of our population feels locked out of the future.

Every institution where a number of the coloured races are, or can be drawn together, shall be broken up… If we destroy, or prevent the building of the nest, we shall not be liable to the incursions of the brood.

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

Discrimination is not just an ugly stain from this nation’s past. It’s still the reality of the present.

This county was formed for the white man, not for the black man.

Integration in the fields of education, housing, transportation and public accommodations will be of limited extent and duration so long as fundamental economic inequality along racial lines persist.

To attempt to explain a system like segregation to a 6 year child is a very difficult thing.

What whites cannot experience and may never understand is that no matter which side of the bed I chose to wake up on, I would still be a black man in the racially divisive America.

I don't know what white people in America feel about blacks. I can only infer it from their institutions. I don't know if white Christians hate negroes, but they do not invite us to their churches. I do not know that white labor unions hate blacks, but they will not admit us. I do not know if the white educators hate us, but they do not allow us in their schools, and they do not teach us very well in the schools they do give us.

In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would.

Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'