Segregation

The Supreme Court attacks school segregation.

The first point to be discussed is whether segregation existed in this district.

I don't agree with segregation of people by race.

The significant point as regards the segregation problem is to clarify the value system of each group.

The masses are entirely ignorant of the segregation problem.

We must stop urban sprawl and fight against physical segregation while still guaranteeing the right to housing.

King led the campaign to end racial segregation and electoral disenfranchisement in the USA using very similar methods to Gandhi in India.

Yes, these are unsettling times. And when the future is uncertain, there seems to be an instinct in our human nature to withdraw to the perceived comfort and security of our own tribe, our own sect, our own nationality, people who look like us, sound like us. But in today's world, more than any time in human history, that is a false comfort. It pits people against one another because of what they look or how they pray or who they love. And yet, we know where that kind of twisted thinking can lead. It can lead to oppression. It can lead to segregation and internment camps.

The Jim Crow laws, which were in effect from the 1880s to the 1960s, were state and local mandates that enforced racial segregation in the American South. The most common types of these laws outlawed intermarriage and required businesses and public institutions to separate their black and white patrons.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.