#Integration Quotes

“To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you first gain from them is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you 'line up' your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instil, and modify to some slight degree their mass.”

“How can we know the dancer from the dance?”

“Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.”

“It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.”

“Poetry and philosophy will become friends.”

“Technology alone is not enough.”

“I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.”

“Apple is the only company in the world that has all of that under one roof. We can invent a complete a solution that works - and take responsibility for it.”

“Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done.”

“If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.”

“I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason.Then slavery came and calls of aggression. But we've been there 600 years and there ain't no peace between black and whites because the cultures are different - like the Chinese and Mexicans cannot integrate: the music is different, the eating is different.”

“The separate parts make no carriage.”

“I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.”

“When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.”

“What does a black man look like begging for a cup of coffee in a white restaurant, and doesn't have a job to back up his - to pay for it when, when - when he does get the coffee? It's putting the cart before the horse.”

“The Chinese in this country aren't asking for integration.”

“This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.”

“Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.”

“It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.”

“(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.”

“To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.”

“Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room; you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind.”

“You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.”

“No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!”

“That's not our problem, that's America's problem. If the average American knew the trouble that Uncle Sam is in all over this earth, they could see that it - we are closer toward getting a separate territory in this country than the integrationists are toward getting integration.”

“It is good that since the outbreak of the war with Japan, more and more revolutionary writers have been coming to Yan'an... But it does not necessarily follow that... they have integrated themselves completely with the masses here. The two must be completely integrated if we are to push ahead with our revolutionary work.”

“The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.”

“I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.”

“These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put their kid sisters in the kitchen to scrub floors.”

“We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow, then let's integrate. But since the Supreme Court issued its desegregation decision seven years ago, and you only have about six or seven percent integration now, on an educational level, that means that the black man trying to use integration as a means of solving his problem will be another 100 years just getting integration on an educational level.”

“If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.”

“The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!”

“I think, again, that that does the whole problem a, a disservice. It's not a case of our wanting to mix socially with whites. And when you - and the whites are right in the South when they say that getting a cup of coffee in a restaurant is not going to solve - is all right.”

“Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.”

“Once the white man let the Negro get an education, the Negro began to want what the white man has. But he let Negroes get an education and now they are demanding integration; they want to have exactly what he has. And the white man is not going to give it to them!”

“We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.”

“When you are equal with another person, the problem of integration doesn't even arise.”

“Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?”

“If he [Uncle Sam] can't do this [integration], then they will - it will alienate them. And all of the hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars that he has sent abroad trying to buy the friendship of the dark world will go right down the drain.”

“The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference, they don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa practices and preaches the same thing.”

“Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.”

“You don't integrate with a sinking ship.”

“Study the science of art and the art of science.”

“There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.”

“It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.”

“Modern man is sick because he is not whole.”

“I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.”

“If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.”

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

“To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.”