Ethnic Segregation Quotes

New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neighborhoods that don't necessarily co-exist, or they co-exist but in a much separate sense.

If you do away with segregation, allow negro [sic] children in white schools, churches, etc. you might as well drop a few bombs on us and not prolong the agony.

The fallacies of the Melting Pot theory have also become obvious. Years before the war [WWI] it had become increasingly apparent that the Melting Pot was no longer successfully performing its function; that the American population was losing its homogeneous character; that various nationalities of recent immigrants were forming more and more compact racial "blocs," each bloc tenaciously maintaining its own racial character, customs, and traditions.

Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not allowed to pass through the same street as the high-caste man, but if he changes his name to a hodge-podge English name, it is all right; or to a Mohammedan name, it is all right.

Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.

Hollywood screwed up in the past. They made Asians the other - a separate group that could only hang out with each other.

The schools must constantly emphasize that the infiltration of the German people with alien blood, especially Jewish and Negro, must be prevented.

It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.

You may set the Negro free, but you cannot make him otherwise than an alien to the European.

We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races.

My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

The UK population became, for lack of a better term, Balkanized. And then all of a sudden Sharia mosques started popping up all over the place. And before you knew it, the most popular or frequent male baby name was Mohammed.

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

Blacks stand out uniquely among the array of American racial and ethnic groups in the degree to which marriage remains within the group.

In Rikers, you had the Italians over here, the Spanish over here, the Blacks here, then there would be your Christians here and your Muslim brotherhood here. It's just like the outside, but in very closed quarters where you have to get along or else. The sense of claustrophobia in 'Orange is the New Black' - that's real.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.

Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

Gothenburg is the Baltimore or Liverpool or Marseille of Sweden - plagued by the death of wharfs and other industries, and with complex segregation of the populace from southern Europe, which once brought in a labor force that suddenly found itself living in remote projects without jobs.

We do not discriminate concerning marriage in the South; we simply do not let the whites and Negroes intermarry. We treat the white the same as the Negro.

You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other.

Paradoxically, just at the point when racist attitudes were declining in society and many ethnic groups were integrating successfully, our political leaders became obsessed with racism.

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.