If you want to make beautiful music,you must play the…

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

— Richard M. Nixon

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able…

— George Gershwin

The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.…

— Brian Eno

When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get…

— Ed Asner

The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march…

— Vic Snyder

“The reality of an historic struggle for civil rights has degenerated into the hustling rhetoric of Newspeak. “Equal opportunity” now means preferential treatment. “Voting…

— Thomas Sowell

I grew up on the Eastern Shore during desegregation. A lot of white parents chose to send their kids to private schools rather than…

— Ralph Northam

Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize…

— Andrew Young

What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is going to…

— Dana Goldstein

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers…

— Zora Neale Hurston

I grew up in the era of the desegregation program. I actually got bussed to a predominately white high school. I didn't have a…

— Herm Edwards

“Most school desegregation suits were brought on behalf of blacks, but Mexican Americans also suffered various forms of school segregation throughout the southwestern states,…

— Derrick Bell

The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race,…

— Clint Smith

School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.

— Clint Smith

“Regrettably, I paid far less attention to all those students less able to overcome the hostility and the sense of alienation they faced in…

— Derrick Bell