Quotes About Brown V Board Of Education

#1. During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Jonathan Kozol

#2. Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.

Thomas Sowell

#3. One of the things that the court held in Brown v. Board of Education is that government can't impose a badge of inferiority on some of its citizens. Yet that is exactly what Proposition 8 does with respect to gay and lesbian couples in California.

David Boies

#4. The possibility of something is better than the certainty of nothing.

Luis Samuel Gonzalez

#5. Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.

Jessye Norman

#6. Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

Bill Cosby

#7. It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?'

Steven Wright

#8. A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.

David Bowie

#9. More cruelly: he feared her faith because, as a fully paid-up pessimist, he knew he had none.

John Le Carre

#10. Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake,I pay thee, Lord, my soul to take.

Lauren Oliver

#11. Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.

Kumail Nanjiani

#12. Of course I knew what time you would get here, girl. Just as I know what time Goodfellow will knock over my nineteenth-century French mantle clock." Puck jerked up at this, bumping a table and sending a clock crashing to the floor. "To the second," the Clockmaker sighed, closing his eyes.

Julie Kagawa

#13. Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

Caroline Knapp

#14. Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.

Joe Morgan

#15. Love is the garment of knowledge.

Kenneth Rexroth

#16. When we look at the situation in Ferguson, Missouri and the tragic death of Michael Brown, we are reminded of the importance of who we elect to our city councils, who sits on our local board of education committees, who we pick to represent us in Congress, in the Senate and more.

Al Sharpton

#17. I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'

Pitbull

#18. It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

Lorene Scafaria

#19. The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Djuna Barnes