Education Quote by Ed Markey

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

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

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

— 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

I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other.

— George Wallace

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are…

— Jonathan Kozol

“Another Harvard research project concluded bluntly that by 2004, American schools were just as segregated as they were in 1969, the year after Martin…

— Jared Taylor

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

Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.

— Erin Gruwell

I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Schools should be diverse if we are to get past racial differences.

— Ruby Bridges

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

— Alphonso Jackson