Nicole Maines Quotes

Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.

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

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.

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.

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

If he presents himself to vote, he runs a risk to his life. Oppressed, he can complain, but if he finds only whites among his judges… His son is excluded from the school where the descendants of Europeans come to be instructed. In theaters he cannot buy for the price of gold the right to be placed at the side of one who was his master; in hospitals he lies apart. The black is permitted to beseech the same God as whites, but not to pray to him at the same alter.

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

Opportunity seems to be color-coded here in America

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.

Segregation results inevitably in discrimination and inferior treatment

He shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

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.

Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.

If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.

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.

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

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

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

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.