America Quote by Jonathan Kozol

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority…

— Jonathan Kozol

The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding…

— Barack Obama

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

— Tavis Smiley

“Many Southern communities developed two school systems: an underfunded public system mostly attended by black students, and private schools set up for white children.…

— Kristen Green

“Currently, “minority” students represent a majority in all but two of our twenty-five largest cities, and by some estimates, the turn of the century…

— Lisa Delpit

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

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same…

— Bobby Scott

There is a racial element: It's undeniable. We've had inequitable funding of schools for decades in the state of Michigan.

— Gretchen Whitmer

My school is about 25 percent black, but the way we're covered doesn't reflect that.

— David Hogg

We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished…

— Diane Watson

Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you…

— Stokely Carmichael

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or…

— Henry Louis Gates