Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“The Portland school board's policy equated integration and racial assimilation. This policy, Rist explains, is a "means of socializing nonwhite students to act, speak,… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“What neither Warren nor most of the rest of us recognized was that segregation was not, as Nirej Sekhorn put it, simply a "taint"… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and… — Derrick Bell 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 children were… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“A few white children were friendly, but others were hostile or simply distant. Teachers unthinkingly added to both problems by physically separating black students… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“Today, many whites oppose all social reform as "welfare programs for blacks." They ignore the fact that poor whites have employment, education, and social… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“Harry Belafonte explained: [T]he Second World War happened, and my mother told me that the fight against Hitler was our fight, and I went… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
It appears that my worst fears have been realized: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“Here is a foundation for understanding today what was clear to only a few fifty years earlier. Now we can see how the state-mandated… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
