Broken Quote by Benjamin E. Mays

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism…

— John Henrik Clarke

“Thus, those who now sharply criticize the public schools speak fondly of an era when most schools were racially segregated; when public schools were…

— Diane Ravitch

For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and the Supreme…

— Malcolm Forbes

My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told…

— John Lewis

Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't…

— Claudette Colvin

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation -…

— Bayard Rustin

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this…

— Bobby Scott

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are…

— Jonathan Kozol

“Just like Supreme Court justices, we as a nation have avoided contemplating remedies because we’ve indulged in the comfortable delusion that our segregation has…

— Richard Rothstein

There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end…

— Bryan Stevenson

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are…

— Jonathan Kozol

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

— Anonymous