Separate But Equal Quotes:

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

- Paul Martin

source: "Where the parties stand". www.cbc.ca. June 28, 2005.

topic: Remember, Equal, Separate But Equal

In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

- Earl Warren

topic: Education, Doctrine, Fields, Public Education, Separate But Equal

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.

- David Lammy

topic: Black And White, Gay, Water, Separate But Equal, Water Fountain

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

- Earl Warren

source: Brown v. Board of Education (1954) See John M. Harlan (1833 - 1911) 1; Kerner 1

topic: Birthday, Children, Heart, Separate But Equal, Qualifications

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

source: "The Case for Reparations". www.theatlantic.com.

topic: Years, Two, America, Jim Crow, Separate But Equal

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Education, America, United States, Separate But Equal

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

- Earl Warren

topic: Educational, Separation, Separate But Equal, Board Of Education

America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which they fully expected their offspring to fulfill. So the words 'all men are created equal' took a life of its own, ultimately destined to end slavery and enfranchise women. And the words 'equal protection' and 'due process' inevitably led to the end of the words 'separate but equal,' ensuring that the walls of segregation would crumble, whether at the lunch counter or at the voting booth.

- Joe Biden

source: Joe Biden (2007). “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics”, p.192, Random House

topic: Children, Wall, Men, Separate But Equal, Equal Protection

Separate but equal is terrible for education but it's perfect for eyebrows.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Eyebrows, Perfect, Terrible, Separate But Equal

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.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Education, Equality, Thinking, Spilt Milk, Separate But Equal

None of us were prepared to hear what Justice Scalia said, because in essence what he was saying is let`s go back to pre-Board of Education - Brown versus Board of Education, 1950s America where blacks are doing all right going to black schools or schools where blacks go. He said go to less advanced schools where they do all right. We`re going back to separate but equal.

- Chris Hayes

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: School, Essence, America, Justice Scalia, Separate But Equal

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

- Christine Gregoire

topic: Sex, Children, Growing Up, Separate But Equal

I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government. And he believes that.

- Paul Ryan

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Believe, Thinking, Government, Separate But Equal, Branches Of Government

I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on. Well, the Fugitive Slave Act was the law, separate but equal was the law, lots of things are the law and then we change them.

- George Will

topic: Moving, Law, Care, Separate But Equal, Affordable Care Act