Separate But Equal Quotes

Educating Negroes is pointless and dangerous. The state should ensure that tax dollars from white citizens should only go to white schools.

Plessy v. Ferguson was a perversion of the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

We need segregated buses... This is Obama's America.

Schoolbooks may not be interchanged between white and colored schools.

But certainly in my grandmother's time - and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie's bathroom was on the side of the house, it was a separate door. Still, to this day, I've never been in that room.

Separate but equal is a fraud.

In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room... There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

We cannot say to one couple that their love is deserving of marriage and to another that their love should only be called a partnership. 'Separate but equal' is never equal. Children of same-sex couples should not grow up wondering why their family is treated differently from other families

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.

These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.

Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets.

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

The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.

I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

Separate but equal does not work.

Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.

In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.

… our representative system has failed.

I will go even further ... and will vote for all measures to elevate their condition and to educate them (Negroes) separate and apart from the whites ... but when it comes to placing him upon the same social and political level as my own race, I must refuse to do it.

There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.

Education is more than buildings and faculties. It is a habit of mind. With the 14th Amendment, states do not have the choice. Segregation violates equal protection. Separate education is not sufficient for today's problems. It is not reasonable to educate people separately for a joint life

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