racial separation Quotes

We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals - for the good of both!

This problem, which exists because of the presence of … Negroes in this country, can be permanently solved only by the physical separation of the races or by resigning ourselves to total mongrelization resulting in the destruction of both the white and black races

Segregation not only separated the races in the South but it separated the South from the rest of the nation.

Our schools are more segregated today than they have ever been since 1968. The schools that I visit hardly have any white students…. Schools that had desegregated, are now resegregating.

The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

The Army is not out to make any social reforms. The Army will put men of different races in different companies. It will change that policy when the Nation as a whole changes it.

The zone where the natives live is not complementary to the zone inhabited by the settlers.

I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.

We have this film that we hope to finance, it's called 'Southern Rights.' It's a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there's a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that.

Chicago's one of the most segregated cities in America. Everybody lives in their own silos and vacuums.

Surely a race of people, desiring to preserve the integrity of that race ... may be permitted to protect themselves, if in no other way by emigration ... The white man came to this country to avoid conditions which to him were not as bad as the present conditions are to us... All we ask is that we may be permitted to exercise the same privilege.

Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.

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.

I am not naive, and I do realize that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I am also fully aware that when segregation ended, we didn't all live happily ever after. No one can convince me, however, that life in America would be better if blacks and whites had stayed separate and unequal.

The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.

The true Negro does not want integration... He realizes his potential is far better among his own race.

Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us. But it wasn't - it was so light. It was so fluffy. I didn't really have a strong awareness of segregation and the separation of races until I left Lorain, Ohio.

Segregation by race has declined gradually since 1970, but separation by income has grown steadily in the same period.

The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die.

I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other.

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.