Children Quote by Joan Didion

“In Coffeeville, Miss., at 6 p.m., there was a golden light and a child swinging in it, swinging from a big tree, over a…

— Joan Didion

“My friends, we cannot win the respect of the white people of the South or elsewhere if we are willing to trade the future…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Working with students and families from diverse class backgrounds, I am constantly amazed at how difficult it is to cross boundaries in this white…

— Bell Hooks

“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children.”

— David Lane

“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends…

— Dorothy Allison

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have…

— Jonathan Kozol

“From the day they were born, my children entered a rich, thriving environment with various outlooks to color the way they see and appreciate…

— Janelle Brown

Middle-class white children, children of privilege, are afforded the opportunity to make a lot of mistakes and still go on to college, still dream…

— Michelle Alexander

“But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us…

— Junius Williams

“until the last quarter of the twentieth century, racially explicit policies of federal, state, and local governments defined where whites and African Americans should…

— Richard Rothstein

“What sets one Southern town apart from another, or from a Northern town or hamlet, or city high-rise? The answer must be the experience…

— Maya Angelou

Hardworking parents across our nation want their children to grow up in safe, strong communities, so that they can reach their full potential and…

— Katie Britt