Destroy Quote by James Meredith

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

— Kevin Kline

“Regrettably, I paid far less attention to all those students less able to overcome the hostility and the sense of alienation they faced in…

— Derrick Bell

I had developed a specifically calculated plan to break the system of white supremacy. My theory was that since Mississippi was the place, this…

— James Meredith

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

— Ryan White

“You never stop to think how the history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action. You never stop to think…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

— Godfrey

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I grew up in the era of the desegregation program. I actually got bussed to a predominately white high school. I didn't have a…

— Herm Edwards

I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone.

— Joe Frazier

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

— Dwight Morrow

Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to…

— Barack Obama