Segregation Quotes

“They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever saw... I couldn't understand why they couldn't give me no justice.”

“I'd see the bus pass every day. But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realised there was a black world and a white world.”

“I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter.”

“It is not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room. There are restroom facilities for white ladies and coloured women, white men and coloured men.”