Segregationist Policies Quotes

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

The time to end racial segregation in the South is upon us now.

I come up in a segregated 1943 atmosphere of segregation.

There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

We insist that educationally and socially we maintain a segregated society …

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were.

Back when they supported segregation, Lott and Thurmond were Democrats.

In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.

Chicago is highly segregated, a fact that both causes and compounds the problems we face in bringing an end to violence.

I guess maybe the only time I met George Wallace was when - at a boy scout meeting in Montgomery, and he met 10 or 15 of us from different areas. I'm not sure why I was there.