| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 31604 |
| QUOTATION: | In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime, drugs and unemployment, I can’t think of a supposedly Black issue that hasn’t wasted the original Black target group and then spread like measles to outlying white experience. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | June Jordan (b. 1939), U.S. poet, civil rights activist. “Problems of Language in a Democratic State,” Moving Towards Home: Political Essays (1982, repr. 1989). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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