Choice Quote by Herm Edwards

Desegregation came very painfully to the Boston schools, long after John Kelly finished high school, and the pain of desegregating Boston schools was visited…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

— Kym Whitley

The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and drug offenders tells us who is viewed as disposable - someone to be purged from the…

— Michelle Alexander

I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third…

— Geraldine Brooks

I went to a predominantly African-American school. I didn't even understand our immigration system. I knew my parents immigrated here.

— Rashida Tlaib

“The reality of an historic struggle for civil rights has degenerated into the hustling rhetoric of Newspeak. “Equal opportunity” now means preferential treatment. “Voting…

— Thomas Sowell

I grew up on the Eastern Shore during desegregation. A lot of white parents chose to send their kids to private schools rather than…

— Ralph Northam

Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize…

— Andrew Young

What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is going to…

— Dana Goldstein

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Most school desegregation suits were brought on behalf of blacks, but Mexican Americans also suffered various forms of school segregation throughout the southwestern states,…

— Derrick Bell

The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race,…

— Clint Smith