Jim Crow Laws Quotes

• You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

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  Anna Deavere Smith

  Believe   School   Jim Crow Laws  

  "Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. December 20, 2010.

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• Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

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  Rand Paul

  Rights   Jim Crow Laws   Practice  

  "Rand Paul attempts to clarify" by Steve Benen, washingtonmonthly.com. May 20, 2010.

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• People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation.

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  Rosa Parks

  Hurt   Children   Giving Up  

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• The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

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  Rand Paul

  Country   Government   Jim Crow Laws  

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• Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.

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  Michelle Alexander

  Race   Jim Crow Laws   Groups  

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.13, The New Press

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• There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow laws. There are Christians, there are other Muslims being slaughtered in the Middle East, they don't need a lecture from Obama about Christianity. The fact of the matter is Obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.

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  Mark Levin

  Christian   Jim Crow Laws   Black  

  "Mark Levin: Obama 'A Nihilist, A Narcissist And An Extremist;" Warns "We Are Going To Get Hit Again'". www.realclearpolitics.com. February 05, 2015.

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• So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

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  Corrine Brown

  Florida   Jim Crow Laws   Two  

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• Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

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  Lou Brock

  Sports   Kings   Pride  

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• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

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  Michelle Alexander

  Jim Crow Laws   Age   Mass Incarceration  

  "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, January 5, 2010.

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• I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.

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  Ron Paul

  Jim Crow Laws   Vote   Law  

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. May 8, 2009.

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