Differences Quote by Ruby Bridges

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms'…

— Roger Ebert

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

— Nikki Giovanni

In this country, we're okay with taking into account wealth and lineage and legacy status, but to look at racial balance in school, to…

— Miguel Cardona

Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white…

— Jonathan Kozol

We know that when students learn in a diverse student body, they get a better education. Everyone benefits from that.

— Miguel Cardona

We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is…

— Georgie Anne Geyer

All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective learning for…

— Ruby Bridges

Administrations and administrative faculty work very hard to see that schools are diverse as much as possible.

— Ruby Bridges

'Diverse' shouldn't be an actionable thing - it should just be.

— Daniel Kaluuya

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are…

— Jonathan Kozol

I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other.

— George Wallace

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