Banks Quote by Knute Nelson

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

— Charles Hamilton Houston

The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here. My mother…

— Glenn Ligon

“wherever a school is actually teaching boys and girls to do something that the community wants, it is seldom that that school fails to…

— Booker T. Washington

“In Georgia, beating back a 1949 challenge from black parents to equalize the schools, Governor Herman Talmadge had already proposed a constitutional amendment that…

— Carol Anderson

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

It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.

— Ashley Walters

The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.

— Kelly Miller

“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

If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts serving poor…

— Pedro Noguera

“The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which…

— Carter G. Woodson

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