Quotes About Brown Vs Board Of Education

#1. 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

#2. It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches.

Don Roff

#3. Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.

Arda Collins

#4. You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.

Og Mandino

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Is it me, or is the government more concerned about its own tax headaches, than your tax headaches?

Neil Cavuto

#8. Help me. Fight for me. And I will be the first ruler in the history of Luna who will also fight for you.

Marissa Meyer

#9. 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

#10. Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

Elyse Fitzpatrick

#11. 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

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

Bill Cosby

#13. I'm a big proponent of 'Don't Ask, Don't tell,' in fact, I enforce it strictly on all of my dates. First, I don't ask them for sex, and then I warn them not to tell anyone after I'm through.

Zach Braff

#14. If people are rude, that may be the end of the conversation, and maybe we won't have a subsequent conversation. But I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt and believing the best about the person.

Michele Bachmann

#15. The body is like an engine. When the engine is shut down, there is no way you can even think of taking care of yourself. When you have food, the mind can take care of all those things.

Benjamin Ajak

#16. When my best friends doubt their little black dresses, they call me on the telephone seeking reassurance.

Andre Leon Talley