B. B. King

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

American Musician

John Lewis

My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.

American Politician

Jane Krakowski

I think I used to sort of segregate things. Work was this and life was this and exercise was this. And I feel as I get older, or I become more relaxed, I feel like wellness is my whole being.

American Actress

Jonathan Kozol

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.

American Writer

Farrah Abraham

I think everyone should - can share whatever they wish when their heart is touched and they want to spread more positivity rather than segregation and separation in this world.

American Entertainer

John C. McGinley

I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into that category, it means you're working. So that's good!

American Actor

Joseph Stiglitz

We have a locale-based education system; we have increasing economic segregation. We clearly need a larger federal program to try to help disadvantaged districts.

American Economist

Clarence Thomas

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

American Judge

Tomi Lahren

We're segregating ourselves because we're afraid we're going to offend each other.

American Journalist

George Wallace

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!

Segregate often implies the use of physical barriers to keep groups apart.

Physical Barrier

'Segregate' can imply unfair treatment when used for separating people.

Negative Connotation

Avoid substituting 'segregate' for 'separate'. It is more specific and often deliberate.

Not Interchangeable

Understanding of 'segregate' is key in discussions about historical social policies.

Historical Usage

Be aware 'segregate' can evoke strong emotions linked to social injustice.

Social Sensitivity

In modern times, 'segregate' acknowledges ongoing issues, not just historical.

Contemporary Acknowledgment

In science and computing, 'segregate' means precise categorization of items.

Technical Precision

Used to describe sorting data, emphasizing clarity and organization.

Data Analysis

In technical contexts, 'segregate' lacks the emotionally charged meaning it has elsewhere.

Neutral Intent

 I'd also have a lot of times where I'd call players up, and they didn't want to speak at all to me. They would hang up. When I said the word baseball, they would just refuse to talk altogether. This was because they faced a lot of segregation during their careers. Along with the lack of glamorization that they faced, they also dealt with a lot of racism on and off the baseball field,

How one teenager...

 in this country. We haven't really wanted to acknowledge the legacy of slavery and the history of lynching and segregation. People want to skip over the apology part, and you still see these Confederate flags and these symbols of resistance. It seems to me part of what is so urgent right now is that we get people to have the courage to say,

John Lewis and Bryan...

 by that history and we never really dealt with it even during the civil rights era I don't think we've confronted all of the pain and anguish that was created by decades of segregation we said to black people you're not good enough to vote just because you're black we said the black kids you can't go to school with other

The urgent need for...

 Right now there's a bill in congress about measuring racial inequality. The draft law says that government money should not be used to collect data on racial segregation. This is a total disaster. If we don't have this data, how can we observe discrimination, let alone fix it? In other

3 ways to spot a bad...

 During his two-year imprisonment, he protested the segregated facilities from within. Wherever Rustin went, he organized and advocated, and was constantly attuned to the methods, groups, and people who could help further messages of equality.

An unsung hero of the...

 They've even had new, frictionless technologies that promised to connect everyone together and that instead deepened existing social and race divides. But because of this history of decay and renewal and segregation and integration,

What obligation do...

 And beneath those visible events, the stubborn data, the studies showing systemic racism in every institution we housing segregation, job discrimination, the deeply racialized inequities in our schools and criminal justice system.

The lie that invented...

 that punish kids for their zip codes in a city that's been segregated since its inception. The fight for equity in Chicago did not become life or death in the pandemic -- it's been life or death for a long time now.

Nora Flanagan: What...

 because if you interact with a two- and a three-month-old, you'd be surprised by how social those babies are. And what we see in the first six months of life is that those two groups can be segregated very easily.

Ami Klin: A new way to...

 most of my personal work focuses almost exclusively on the lives of women who are living in gender segregated environments in different places around the world and it's such a privilege

Segregate

Physical Barrier

Negative Connotation

Not Interchangeable

Compare with

Never forget "Segregate"

WordUp Chrome Extension