Jim Crow Quotes - Page 2

• Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.

  Langston Hughes

  Jesus, Texas, Self

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.10, Hill and Wang

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• No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid

  Michelle Alexander

  Country, Black, United States

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.6, The New Press

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• I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If anybody knows a racist, I do. Pat Buchanan ain't no racist.

  Ezola B. Foster

  School, College, Scary

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• El primer republicano que conocí fue mi padre y sigue siendo el republicano al que más admiro. Se afilió a nuestro partido porque los demócratas de la Alabama de Jim Crow de 1952 no le inscribieron en el censo electoral. Los republicanos lo hicieron. Mi padre nunca ha olvidado ese día, y yo tampoco.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Father, Party, Crow

  "Transcript of Condi Rice's Convention Speech". ABC NEWS, abcnews.go.com.

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• Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.

  E.W. Jackson

  Lynching, Ideas, Ku Klux Klan

  "Thies: Ew, Virginia! E.W. Jackson" by Chuck Thies, www.nbcwashington.com. June 26, 2013.

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• That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World.

  Edwin Meese

  Law, Voting, Crow

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• I grew up on a farm and, prior to my father's murder, I wanted to get away from the farm, and away from South Georgia where the Jim Crow laws absolutely controlled anything and everything we did. So, my goal was to leave once I completed high school. But on the night of my father's murder, I made a commitment that I would not leave the South, that I would stay and devote my life to working for change. So, my father's murder has shaped the course of my life even up to this very day.

  Shirley Sherrod

  School, Commitment, Night

  Fuente: aalbc.com

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• I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse than this. We've got slavery and Jim Crow. We've got workers with no rights up until `35. We're going to bounce back. We are resilient, resisting people. So, it's not pessimism, but it is blues-like. It's not optimistic. We're just prisoners of hope, that's all.

  Cornel West

  Optimistic, Rights, People

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order

  William J. Brennan

  Exercise, Order, Justice

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• Después de leer The New Jim Crow, la impresionante obra de erudición de Michelle Alexander, uno llega a la terrible conclusión de que, para la gente de color, el sistema de justicia penal estadounidense se parece al gulag de la Unión Soviética: el segundo castigaba ideas, el primero castiga una condición.

  David Levering Lewis

  Lectura, Ideas, Color

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• If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.

  Langston Hughes

  Rights, Government, Buffalo

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.63, Hill and Wang

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• La gente ha dicho a lo largo de los años que la razón por la que no renuncié a mi escaño fue que estaba cansado. No pensé en estar cansado físicamente. No me dolían los pies. Estaba cansada de otra manera. Estaba cansado de ver a tantos hombres tratados como niños y no llamados por sus nombres o títulos apropiados. Estaba cansada de ver cómo se maltrataba y se faltaba al respeto a niños y mujeres por el color de su piel. Estaba cansado de las leyes de Jim Crow, de la segregación racial impuesta legalmente.

  Rosa Parks

  Hurt, Children, Giving Up

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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.

  Corrine Brown

  Florida, Jim Crow Laws, Two

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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.

  Rand Paul

  Rights, Jim Crow Laws, Practice

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

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• Comenzamos América con el pecado de la esclavitud que nos llevó directamente al período posterior a la reconstrucción que fue el mayor período de terrorismo interno en la historia de nuestro país. Luego, después de eso, tuvimos Jim Crow emerger y justo cuando las leyes de Jim Crow estaban terminando llegó el ataque de la guerra contra las drogas. Pues bien, la guerra contra las drogas ha afectado tan perniciosamente, ha infectado tan insidiosamente a las comunidades de color que, en cierto modo, ha cerrado el círculo, y ahora tenemos más afroamericanos bajo supervisión penal que todos los esclavos de 1865. Se trata de una guerra profundamente injusta.

  Cory Booker

  War, Community, Drug

  Fuente: hightimes.com

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• Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Growing Up, Crow, Able

  "¿Qué haría Brandeis?". "Amicus" con Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. 16 de junio de 2016.

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• What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November 2, 2008, because of the progress and the spirit that it took to get Barack Obama in The White House. And what we didn't realize, is that was really the beginning. That was really the beginning of the struggle and not the end of a struggle, to come from colonial times through slavery, through the Jim Crowe Laws, through the civil rights period to The White House as, like a point A/point B journey. Point B of course being the end.

  Questlove

  Believe, Struggle, Journey

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• There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly children, there is also the emergence of a punishing state, a governing through crime youth complex, and the emergence of the school-to-prison pipeline as the new face of Jim Crow.

  Henry Giroux

  Children, School, Crow

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Lo que ha cambiado desde el colapso de Jim Crow tiene menos que ver con la estructura básica de nuestra sociedad que con el lenguaje que utilizamos para justificarla. En la era del daltonismo, ya no es socialmente admisible utilizar explícitamente la raza como justificación de la discriminación, la exclusión y el desprecio social. Así que no lo hacemos. En lugar de basarnos en la raza, utilizamos nuestro sistema de justicia penal para etiquetar a las personas de color como "delincuentes" y luego llevar a cabo todas las prácticas que supuestamente dejamos atrás.

  Michelle Alexander

  Raza, color, práctica

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• En teoría, se puede argumentar que siglos de esclavitud, Jim Crow y discriminación son la causa principal de todas esas diferencias. Que se trata de injusticias cometidas contra la comunidad negra en su conjunto, y contra las familias negras en particular, y que, para cerrar esa brecha, la sociedad tiene la obligación moral de hacer una inversión grande y agresiva, aunque no sea en forma de cheques individuales de reparación, sino en forma de un Plan Marshall, para cerrar esas brechas. Es fácil esgrimir ese argumento teórico.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Order, Community

  Fuente: www.theatlantic.com

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• Los programas que llegaron a conocerse como el New Deal no fueron simplemente dictados por la benevolencia de FDR y los demócratas. Se luchó por ellos. Y en la década de 1960 ocurrió lo mismo. En los 60 hubo movimientos increíbles contra Jim Crow, la pobreza y la guerra de Vietnam.

  Kshama Sawant

  War, Crow, Vietnam

  Fuente: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Para poder acusar mejor a Moscú de violación de los derechos humanos, Estados Unidos tuvo que ceder en los aspectos más excesivos de Jim Crow. Tuvo que ceder a los insistentes gritos sobre el terreno aquí en este país.

  Gerald Horne

  Country, Yield, Rights

  Fuente: politicalaffairs.net

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• Whenever a Republican gets in office, all of a sudden progressives realize that federalism and state's rights aren't necessarily only about defending slavery or Jim Crow. They're actually about maximizing freedom.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Rights, Office, Crow

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• [Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn't directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Crow, Hawaii, Segregation

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• As a criminal you have scarcely more rights, and arguably 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

  Men, Rights, America

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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