Believe Quote by Barry Williams

What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There…

— Barack Obama

I think that some part of society is worried that the racial achievement gap is not going to close. And so we've become obsessed…

— Heather Mac Donald

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority…

— Jonathan Kozol

There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For example wealth,…

— Noam Chomsky

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who…

— Clarence Thomas

Race is a huge factor when it comes to income and social inequality, and it plays a role in the structural barriers you are…

— Lauren Greenfield

Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do not have…

— Amy Wax

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or…

— Henry Louis Gates

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

No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies…

— Jonathan Kozol

I think it goes back to whether or not race and class - that is, race and poverty - is not becoming even more…

— Condoleezza Rice

Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates