Segregation Effects Quotes

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

Students who spend their lives in segregated schools can look forward to a life on the margins.

We're now segregating our schools based on economics; we're segregating our schools based on where a child's parents live. And it has the same corrosive effect of destroying people's opportunity as racial segregation did.

When Muslims live and grow up in a separate neighborhood in London, they are surrounded only by their culture. They don't need to integrate with other cultures, they don't need to mix with other people... When we don't live together, we start hating each other.

Separate schools for African Americans in effect branded a whole race with the stigma of inferiority and degradation

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

You know, civil rights is great and everything, but a lot of people don't realize that plumbers in the South make less money than when they used to install separate drinking fountains.

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...''You are not equal to...'

I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.

This kind of 'separate but equal,' I've seen what it's done in the history here in America, and it didn't work. And it still hasn't worked, I mean, even in continued segregation of our schools, which has increased with the privatization of our school system.

The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.