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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted.
Divided, there is little we can do. Together, there is little we cannot do.
What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
Clearly some complicated process of sorting-out was in progress among those who surrounded me: though only years later did I become aware how early such voluntary segregations begin to develop; and of how they continue throughout life.
Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.
Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.
Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.
Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
To be categorized is, simply, to be enslaved
The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.
Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people's lives.
If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.
Divided like boys and girls at a summer camp, egg whites and yolks in grandma's lemon-meringue-pie recipe, dogs and cats in pet heaven.
All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.
Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.
Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels.
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.'
I hate to be categorized.
To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.
The first remedy or prevention is to remove, by all means possible, that material cause of sedition whereof we spake; which is, want and poverty in the estate.
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.
Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.
Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.
I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization.
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.
The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.
Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence.
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries,
shutting out and shutting in, separating inside
from outside: I have
drawn no lines
Law and order embrace on hate's border.
Compartmentalize
We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.
You need demarcation."
"Demarcation?" I asked.
"It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.
Problem with segregation isn't that people can't live in peaceful harmony singing "Kumbaya" - although that wouldn't be bad. The problem is that many of these Whitopian communities are taking state, local, and federal resources with them.
Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.
If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.
Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world ...
All organisation is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition just as two objects cannot occupy the same space
A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.
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.
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
To Balkanize has come to be used in a derogatory sense meaning to violently fragment, disrupt or disorganize..
Divisions in mankind are unnatural. They are man made.
Exploitation of the Negro through economic restriction and segregation the present system is sound and will doubtless continue until this gives place to the saner policy of actual interracial cooperation
not the present farce of racial manipulation in which the Negro is a figurehead.
Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
I'm here to tell you, separate was never equal.
Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them.
Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.
Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.
To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness!
We should never think of separation except for repeated and enormous violations
The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.
All our differences and similarities are vast and rich - their interplay is the fabric of all relating. It's hard to invent rules out of such complexity; we improvise as we learn about each other.
Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal.
Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.
The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That's what segregation means. You don't know what's happening on the other side of the wall, because you don't want to know.
Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage.
In diversity we find our strongest bonds and most violent divides.
I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.
All religions segregate also ... every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
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.
Unite to win. Divide to conquer.
There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.
Organize before they rise!
We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.
Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.
In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Differences don't just threaten and divide us. They also inform, enrich, and enliven us.
We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
If you don't have a plan for inclusivity your plan is to be exclusive.
We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal education opportunities? We believe that it does.
It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.
We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.
If people aren't equal, where would you fit in?
Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it.
DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.
Divide and conquer - I mean, partition and replicate.
We can be more inclusive.
As you well know, the secret of community lies in suppression of the incompatible.
I don't believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.
The tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation along secondary or superficial or downright imbecilic lines.
At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.
The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.
Treat them all the same by treating them differently.
We must all guard against the human weakness of forming into tribes in order to lift our self-esteem. We can feel good about ourselves without having to find someone else to classify as inferior.
You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.