Draftees Quote by Joseph E. Persico

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

— Jeremy Lin

“there was another variable that was a strong predictor of a person’s securing an entry in Wikipedia: the proportion of immigrants in your county…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls…

— Philip Zimbardo

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

— Tavis Smiley

“The success of college towns and big cities is striking when you just look at the data. But I also delved more deeply to…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“From 1979 to 1988, it concluded, Harvard admitted only 13.2 percent of Asian Americans, compared with 17.4 percent of whites. Applicants from California and…

— Daniel Golden

“Poor boys are easier than middle-class or rich ones. Boys who've been busted are easier than boys who have not. Southern boys are easier…

— John Valentine

Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at…

— Robert Kennedy

“It is not uncommon for people in poor urban neighborhoods and in rural communities to say that when boys become teenagers they face two…

— Erik Ching

“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

After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys,…

— Anonymous

About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

— George W. Bush