Black Quote by Alphonso Jackson

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that…

— Jonathan Kozol

Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand,…

— Marian Wright Edelman

It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of…

— Michael N. Castle

All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective learning for…

— Ruby Bridges

Education is supposed to be our great equalizer, but when only half of low-income students are enrolling in college and only three tenths are…

— Chris Meledandri

Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the…

— Dick Gregory

There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The…

— Darryl Pinckney

Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white…

— Barack Obama

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

— Shelby Steele

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

— Jonathan Kozol

What we, as black people, need to do is we need to worry about our education.

— Charles Barkley