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There is a racial element: It's undeniable. We've had inequitable funding of schools for decades in the state of Michigan.

— Gretchen Whitmer

When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all colors, yellow…

— Cornel West

In this country, we're okay with taking into account wealth and lineage and legacy status, but to look at racial balance in school, to…

— Miguel Cardona

We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and…

— Michelle Alexander

There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools,…

— James Avery

It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for…

— William Howard Taft

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done…

— J. C. Watts

“As a person of color in America, you need to fly to reach the hallowed gates of wealth and mainstream success while others can…

— Wajahat Ali

While the most disadvantaged students - most often poor students of color - receive the most considerable academic benefits from attending diverse schools, research…

— Clint Smith

Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion…

— Eric Liu

The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class…

— Michelle Alexander

We cannot afford to lose talented young black people, who make it to university, overseas, or worse, to let other talented black people be…

— David Lammy