Asian Quote by Danny Glover

I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I…

— Danny Glover

Historically black colleges and universities are incredibly important institutions woven into the fabric of America. They have played such an important role in achieving…

— Donald Trump

Because my college was a local college, it had a historic role in educating minorities and the tuition increase was viewed as an obstacle…

— Lewis Schiff

[The strike in 1968] brought us together with teachers and also with progressive whites. All of us came from diverse backgrounds, but at the…

— Danny Glover

“If there was a single event that galvanized conservative donors to try to wrest control of higher education in America, it might have been…

— Jane Mayer

Going to an interracial high school shaped my understanding of social justice and racial inequality.

— Ed Schultz

Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this…

— Bobby Scott

“Here is a foundation for understanding today what was clear to only a few fifty years earlier. Now we can see how the state-mandated…

— Derrick Bell

I remember a time when you were protesting on the street together with your professors, with your union, with your school organizations. Everybody was…

— Raoul Peck

“The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which…

— Carter G. Woodson

“We were three hours from Chicago, so my blackness was less of a curiosity, more of a threat. And there were the black students…

— Roxane Gay