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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…
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We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do…
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.…
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Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of…
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
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The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is…
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If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand…
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…
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Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value…
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Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image…
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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge…
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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
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Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
— Julian Bond
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and…
— Audre Lorde
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If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black…
— Malcolm X
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We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at…
— Unknown Author
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In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly…
— Harry Belafonte
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Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy.…
— Donna Brazile
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Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the…
— Valerie Wilson Wesley
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I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the…
— Arthur Ashe
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So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not…
— Chris Rock
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The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of…
— Walter E. Williams
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I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and…
— Barry Williams
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In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on…
— Henry Louis Gates
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