Jim Crow Quotes

• We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

  Al Sharpton

  Son, Crow, Defeated

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• We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it.

  Michelle Alexander

  America, Felons, Mass Incarceration

  "A Bitter Harvest: California, Marijuana, and the New Jim Crow". "Bringing Down the New Jim Crow" with Chris Moore-Backman, www.prx.org. November 15, 2011.

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• Jim Crow está vivo y viste un traje de Brooks Brothers, amigo mío, en lugar de una bata blanca.

  Myrlie Evers-Williams

  Hermano, Blanco, Cuervo

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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

  Lou Brock

  Sports, Kings, Pride

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• If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

  Jon Meacham

  Religious, Gay, Rights

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• 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.

  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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• La familia negra sobrevivió a siglos de esclavitud y a generaciones de Jim Crow, pero se ha desintegrado a raíz de la expansión del Estado del bienestar por parte de los liberales.

  Thomas Sowell

  Black, Crow, Expansion

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• Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism . . . We advance.

  Melvin B. Tolson

  Lying, Labyrinth, Deceit

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• 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

  Years, Two, America

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

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

  Michelle Alexander

  Jim Crow Laws, Age, Mass Incarceration

  "El nuevo Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Libro de Michelle Alexander, 5 de enero de 2010.

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• Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service - are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and largely less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

  Michelle Alexander

  Educational, Men, Opportunity

  "El nuevo Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Libro de Michelle Alexander, 5 de enero de 2010.

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• La historia de la represión afroamericana en este país surgió del racismo sancionado por el gobierno. Las leyes de Jim Crow fueron producto de gobiernos estatales y locales intolerantes.

  Rand Paul

  País, Gobierno, Leyes Jim Crow

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• El destino de millones de personas -de hecho, el futuro de la propia comunidad negra- puede depender de la voluntad de quienes se preocupan por la justicia racial de reexaminar sus supuestos básicos sobre el papel del sistema de justicia penal en nuestra sociedad.

  Michelle Alexander

  Destino, Personas, Justicia

  Michelle Alexander (2013). "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness", p.16, The New Press.

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• Y para que no se nos suban los humos a la cabeza y pensemos que esto es exclusivo de algún otro lugar, recordemos que durante las Cruzadas y la Inquisición se cometieron actos terribles en nombre de Cristo. En nuestro país, la esclavitud y el racismo se justificaron con demasiada frecuencia en nombre de Cristo.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Horse, Home

  Barack Obama's Speech at National Prayer Breakfast, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 5, 2015.

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• One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Race, Car, Crow

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). "Siguiendo la línea del color: Un relato de la ciudadanía negra en la democracia estadounidense"

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• Esa es una de las mayores pérdidas, creo, para las familias afroamericanas, es que la gente, una vez que se fueron, se alejaron del Sur. No miraron atrás, y a menudo no se lo contaron a sus hijos. No querían hablar de ello. Era demasiado doloroso, por lo que habían pasado y por el sistema de castas del Sur, que era Jim Crow.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Niños, Pérdida, Pensamiento

  "La periodista Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. 23 de diciembre de 2010.

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• As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.

  Jon Meacham

  Dog, Epic, Fire

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• Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

  Larry Elder

  Mother, Father, Crow

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• In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Fighting, Kentucky

  "Rand Paul Is Proud Of The GOP’s Tradition Of Supporting ‘Civil Rights’" by Sarah Fruchtnicht, www.opposingviews.com. October 13, 2013.

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• Fue la mayor supresión del derecho al voto en la historia de nuestro país desde Jim Crow. Y el hilo de la raza recorre mi libro de principio a fin.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Correr, País, Libro

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• Crecí en Ohio, donde los logros en materia de derechos civiles ya habían empezado a acelerarse antes de que apareciera Martin Luther King. En retrospectiva, sabemos que muchas personas, blancas y negras, fueron decisivas para cambiar el statu quo de Jim Crow a todos los niveles.

  Rita Dove

  Kings, Black And White, Rights

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• The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.

  Bayard Rustin

  Journey, Peaceful, Crow

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time.

  Michelle Alexander

  African American, Crow, Needs

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.21, The New Press

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• Las minorías pobres viven en una nueva era de Jim Crow, en la que los estragos de la segregación, el racismo, la pobreza y las esperanzas truncadas se ven amplificados por las fuerzas de la privatización, la financiarización, la militarización y la criminalización, configurando una nueva arquitectura del castigo, el sufrimiento humano masivo y el autoritarismo.

  Henry Giroux

  Punishment, Racism, Crow

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Más de 2 millones de personas se encontraban entre rejas a principios del siglo XXI, y millones más fueron relegadas a los márgenes de la sociedad mayoritaria, desterradas a un espacio político y social no muy distinto de Jim Crow, donde la discriminación en el empleo, la vivienda y el acceso a la educación era perfectamente legal, y donde se les podía negar el derecho al voto.

  Michelle Alexander

  Space, Mainstream Society, Racism

  Michelle Alexander (2013). "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness", p.58, The New Press.

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