Jim Crow Laws Quotes:

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.

- Rand Paul

topic: Country, Government, Jim Crow Laws, Jim Crow, Local Government

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.

- Rand Paul

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

topic: Rights, Jim Crow Laws, Practice, Jim Crow, Civil Rights Act

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.

- Mark Levin

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

topic: Christian, Jim Crow Laws, Black

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

- Ron Paul

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

topic: Jim Crow Laws, Vote, Law

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

- Michelle Alexander

topic: Crow, Age, Mass Incarceration, Jim Crow, Jim Crow Laws

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

- Lou Brock

topic: Kings, Pride, Games, Jim Crow, Jim Crow Laws

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.

- Michelle Alexander

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

topic: Race, Law, Crow, Jim Crow Laws, Mass Incarceration

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.

- Rosa Parks

topic: Hurt, Children, Giving Up, Jim Crow, Jim Crow Laws

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, its hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

- Anna Deavere Smith

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

topic: Believe, School, America, Jim Crow, Jim Crow Laws

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.

- Corrine Brown

topic: Florida, Law, Two, Jim Crow, Jim Crow Laws