Cities Quote by Cornel West

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

— Bob Herbert

There is a racial element: It's undeniable. We've had inequitable funding of schools for decades in the state of Michigan.

— Gretchen Whitmer

We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical…

— Earl Warren

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are…

— Jonathan Kozol

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority…

— Jonathan Kozol

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical…

— Earl Warren

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

— Jonathan Kozol

It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in…

— Malcolm X

There's a lot of bad consequences that flow from segregation. The kids don't do as well. We live separately. We don't learn about each…

— Walter F. Mondale

It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as…

— Thurgood Marshall