Circumstances Quote by Condoleezza Rice

I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.

— Condoleezza Rice

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

What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system.…

— Charles A. Murray

I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They…

— Condoleezza Rice

Even in the '80s and '90s, many white Southerners were still bitter about court decisions that required racial integration of the schools. It wasn't…

— Brianna Wu

So, I was in a segregated, all black, public elementary school until fourth grade, until my father died. And that's when my mother transferred…

— Maya Wiley

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

— Maya Angelou

I remember my school days with mixed emotions; I was so grateful to be given a mainstream education, and yet at times I felt…

— Liz Carr

When you’re young, your world is pretty limited. My parents, my family, my church dominated my world. And because Birmingham was so segregated, I…

— Condoleezza Rice

In my school, racism was ubiquitous and unrelenting, and not just from the pupils. For a year I was terrorised by one of my…

— David Olusoga

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

— Martin H. Fischer

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into…

— Bryan Stevenson