Wikipedia states:
In general, quotient spaces are ill-behaved with respect to separation axioms. The separation properties of $X$ need not be inherited by $X/\!\!\sim$, and $X/\!\!\sim$ may have separation properties not shared by $X$.
The Kolmogorov quotient yields perhaps the simplest nontrivial examples of quotients $X/\!\!\sim$ having separation properties not shared by $X$. We start by defining an equivalence relation $\sim$ on $X$ wherein $x \sim y \iff$ $x$ and $y$ have the same open neighborhoods, i.e. whenever they are topologically indistinguishable. By passing to $X/\!\!\sim$, we arrive at a space where any two points are distinguishable. So when $X$ is not $T_0$, the Kolmogorov quotient on $X$ is $T_0$. On the other hand, if $X$ already is $T_0$, then $X$ and $X/\!\!\sim$ are homeomorphic.
Though unsatisfying, note also that you can simply "glue together" all of the points of any space into one, wherein we mod out by the equivalence relation $\{x \sim y\ \ \ \forall x, y \in X\}$. In this quotient, every separation property becomes vacuously true.
Just underneath the above quoted text, Wikipedia gives a hint$^\dagger$ for constructing a space $X$ and an equivalence relation $\sim$ such that we lose separation properties by passing to the quotient space:
$X/\!\!\sim$ is a $T_1$ space if and only if every equivalence class of $\sim$ is closed in $X$.
So simply construct a $T_1$ space together with a relation such that at least one of its equivalence classes is not closed in $X$. Because there is a bijective correspondence between equivalence relations on $X$ and partitions of $X$ (a corollary of the definition of an equivalence relation), you can approach this by partitioning $X$ into subsets $\{P_\alpha\}$ where at least one of these subsets is not closed. We must then lose $T_1$-ness by passing to $X/\!\!\sim$.
$^\dagger$Proof sketch of hint:
Let $f: X \rightarrow X/\!\!\sim$ be the quotient map. This result is a consequence of the following three facts, considered together: