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

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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I…
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do…
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.…
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of…
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is…
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand…
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value…
Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image…
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge…
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. — Theodor Adorno
The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens. — Justin Timberlake
I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are… — Justin Timberlake
Between black and white there throbs the universe of chromatic phenomena. — Johannes Itten
In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where… — Richard Rodriguez
I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but… — Montel Williams
The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. — Joel Osteen
Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said. — Idris Elba
Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between… — Eminem
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially.… — Jonathan Kozol
Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more… — Sarah Silverman
I know the difference between black magic and white magic. — Tina Turner

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