About Quote by Jessye Norman

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

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into…

— Bryan Stevenson

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

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that…

— Jonathan Kozol

“Fifty years after Brown, we should have learned that there is no magic in white classmates. The magic lies at the intersection of educational…

— William Raspberry

I have learned so much from conversations I've had with young students about racial justice, climate action, LGBTQ rights, workers' rights, and more.

— Marty Walsh

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

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women.…

— John Lewis

I know I'm going back some decades, but I'll never forget the discomfort of being one of the few Black kids in a predominantly…

— Jonathan Capehart

I went to Dunbar High School, recognized as the best high school of the segregated era. The education enabled students from Dunbar to attend…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us. But it…

— Toni Morrison

“What would the black community be if we taught our children love, family values, self-respect, nonviolence, how to manage money, how to speak up…

— Lashaunda K. Jackson-Williams