I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children. — Jaye Davidson Copy Share Image
Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children? — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
Our families have fallen to pieces. 75 percent of all black children are born out of wedlock, without a father. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
It is not, nor will it ever be, white people's responsibility to teach black children our unique American history. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy.… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies… — Trent Franks Copy Share Image
For generations, black children have been brought up to have a critical race consciousness, a framework for dealing with prejudice and discrimination,… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
In Florida, North Florida, and across the South, Black children used to be used as alligator bait. That's how they would get… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
We don't live in a world that nurtures and cares for Black girls like me. And if the world doesn't care about… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
“One such question revolved around the informal institution of black kids eating together in the cafeteria. I’m going to let you in… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
“Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and avoid prison time, they must be… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
“I wept for my children and all black children who have been denied a knowledge of their heritage; I wept for all… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“The theory is that immersion in the history of one's own group will overcome feelings of racial inferiority both by instilling pride… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“There is no Black person here who can afford to wait to be led into positive action for survival. Each one of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“There is a belief advanced today, and in some cases by conservative black authors, that poor children and particularly black children should… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“As with most voluntary school integration programs, dispersal of the black children was the norm. In Portland, no more than forty-five black… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.' — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“One important aspect of black children's learning is that they tend to be significantly more sensitive to whether their teacher likes and… — Michele Stephenson Copy Share Image
Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children,… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the… — Valerie Wilson Wesley Copy Share Image
I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and… — Barry Williams Copy Share Image