About Quote by Don Lemon

It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they…

— Forest Whitaker

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.

— Bernie Sanders

Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, don't know…

— Yolanda King

In terms of school, we never got taught anything about black history. Growing up, a lot of things are hidden away from you.

— Andre Gray

I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story…

— Emma Stone

It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.

— Ashley Walters

The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad.…

— Ashley Graham

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

— Henry Louis Gates

To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans…

— Sol Stern

I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has…

— Karyn Parsons

You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age that I…

— Terri Sewell