All 20 Uses
segregation
in
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
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- Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States.†
- Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation.†
- Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, "Wait."†
- Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws.†
- All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality.†
- All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality.†
- It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.†
- It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.†
- Segregation, to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, substitutes an "I it" relationship for an "I thou" relationship and ends up relegating persons to the status of things.†
- Hence segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and sinful.†
- Is not segregation an existential expression of man's tragic separation, his awful estrangement, his terrible sinfulness?†
- I can urge them to disobey segregation ordinances, for they are morally wrong.
*segregation = the act of keeping people separated because of their race
- Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up that state's segregation laws was democratically elected?†
- But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest.†
- One is a force of complacency, made up in part of Negroes who, as a result of long years of oppression, are so drained of self respect and a sense of "somebodiness" that they have adjusted to segregation; and in part of a few middle-class Negroes who, because of a degree of academic and economic security and because in some ways they profit by segregation, have become insensitive to the problems of the masses.†
- One is a force of complacency, made up in part of Negroes who, as a result of long years of oppression, are so drained of self respect and a sense of "somebodiness" that they have adjusted to segregation; and in part of a few middle-class Negroes who, because of a degree of academic and economic security and because in some ways they profit by segregation, have become insensitive to the problems of the masses.†
- Unlike so many of their moderate brothers and sisters, they have recognized the urgency of the moment and sensed the need for powerful "action" antidotes to combat the disease of segregation.†
- I commend you, Reverend Stallings, for your Christian stand on this past Sunday, in welcoming Negroes to your worship service on a nonsegregated basis.†
nonsegregated = not kept separatestandard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonsegregated means not and reverses the meaning of segregated. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
- To preserve the evil system of segregation.†
- They will be old, oppressed, battered Negro women, symbolized in a seventy two year old woman in Montgomery, Alabama, who rose up with a sense of dignity and with her people decided not to ride segregated buses, and who responded with ungrammatical profundity to one who inquired about her weariness: "My feets is tired, but my soul is at rest."†
Definitions:
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(1)
(segregation) the act of keeping people or things separate -- especially people due to discrimination based on race, gender, ethnicity, or religion
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)