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Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that needs asking. But they do not ask what can be done about the values of the people who have segregated these communities. There is no academic study of the pathological detachment of the very rich... ↗


— Jonathan Kozol


#poverty-wealth #school-reform #segregation #education

The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether today an admittedly far greater number requiring far less talent can succeed. The real question is whether it's harder for the people in this audience to succeed be they extraordinary, average, or below average. If it is, and I think it obvious that it is, then that's untenable in a country that purports to provide equal opportunity for all. Now of course you'll dispute my claim that it is more difficult to succeed for them. You say the battle's over. I say not only is it not over but you yourself are stationed on the frontline of the battle and have been all these years. This room and the criminal justice system as a whole is the frontline. This is where modern-day segregation lives on. ↗


— Sergio De La Pava


#colorblind-racism #courts #criminal-justice #law #prison

We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free. ↗


— Cab Calloway


#club #cotton #free #open #segregation

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble. ↗


— Paul Harris


#anything #brought #except #never #segregation

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should. ↗


— Bruce Hornsby


#change #discrimination #housing #millions #people

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people. ↗


— Coretta Scott King


#black #forced #i #i believe #people

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not. ↗


— Kathryn Stockett


#even #fair #get #grocery #grocery store

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art. ↗


— Jeanne Moreau


#ever #live #power #segregation #start

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. ↗


— Leonard Boswell


#ago #during #equality #forty-one #ideal

If you want to make beautiful music,you must play the black note and the white notes together ↗


— Richard M. Nixon


#beauty






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