Funding Quote by Gretchen Whitmer

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

In this country, we're okay with taking into account wealth and lineage and legacy status, but to look at racial balance in school, to…

— Miguel Cardona

The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that…

— Anonymous

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

— Ruby Bridges

Growing up in Michigan, I can't think of anything so explicitly communicated to me in my whole education experience as the vileness of in-your-face…

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Jonathan Kozol

All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective learning for…

— Ruby Bridges

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

— Nikki Giovanni

When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all colors, yellow…

— Cornel West

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see…

— Bennie Thompson

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

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

— Alphonso Jackson