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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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One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has…
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Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals…
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I know I've been called the Louis Vuitton Don ... I've been called a lot of names ... Due to what happened,…
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If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created…
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Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating…
— Nichelle Nichols
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My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.
— Mitt Romney
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I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should…
— Coretta Scott King
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We have come a long way in America because of Martin Luther King, Jr. He led a disciplined, nonviolent revolution under the…
— John Lewis
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I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin…
— Jerry Falwell
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There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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I object. I object to any killing at all. You know, it's terrible what happened and I think retaliation definitely makes sense…
— Tre Cool
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Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams…
— Alveda King
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