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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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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white…
— Maggie Gallagher
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The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly…
— Unknown Author
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There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I…
— Rosa Parks
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There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing…
— Susan Jacoby
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There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have…
— Gwen Ifill
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Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
— Jonathan Kozol
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I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but…
— Randall Kennedy
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Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
— Robert Dallek
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In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.
— Unknown Author
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