Sentence examples for supporting segregation from inspiring English sources

"Supporting segregation need not be racist," said Mr. Connerly.

My mother decided she wanted no part in supporting segregation.

In 2014, Longwood University expressed "profound regret" for supporting segregation during the school closures, and established a scholarship.

But when asked to describe, and place in time, his own conversion from supporting segregation to repudiating it, Mr. Lott demurred.

Prejudice does not necessarily mean supporting segregation or racial subjugation, but can imply deep social feelings.

The classic example of such coded political language is "states' rights," which Southerners would loudly champion during the Civil Rights era, because it sounded so much better defending the Tenth Amendment than actually supporting segregation.

"A whole society can be wrong, like the one that supported segregation," Professor Sandel said.

David J. Garrow, author of "Bearing the Cross," a biography of Dr. King, said someone who supported segregation in 1962 was not immoral.

Until the 1960s southern whites felt pressure to support segregation even if they did not wholeheartedly believe in it.

After briefly joining the South African Labor Party, which then supported segregation, he became a member of the South African Communist Party in 1938.

The idea that Buchanan and other leading libertarian thinkers of the day supported segregation and opposed Brown is based on crude misreading of evidence and utterly indefensible.