Billy Graham Quotes

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

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.

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.

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

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

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

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

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.

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

Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.

As a child, I lived through and survived the segregated South. I sat at the back of the bus at a time when America wasn't yet as great as it could be.

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.

When I was a child, it was segregated, and I couldn't go across a fence to certain parts of Gainesville.

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

Separate but equal does not work.

The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom; you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality.

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.

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

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

The law has made the Negro equal, but man has not.

A very large proportion of Virginians would want to continue segregation of the races because we believe we can provide a better system of education by doing that.

We cannot go on, as we have gone on for more than half a century, with one great section of our population … set off from the real contribution to solving national issues because of a division of race lines …

God has been the author of segregation and opposition to segregation is opposition to God.