Quotes About Desegregation

#1. In 1970, a superior Court judge issues an order forcing the desegregation of Los Angeles schools. The judge survives an assassination attempt and loses his job in the next election.

James Frey

#2. When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems - like prejudice and desegregation, for instance - that we face in our everyday lives.

Ed Asner

#3. Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent.

Robert Kennedy

#4. The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

Vic Snyder

#5. Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.

Andrew Young

#6. Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.

Zora Neale Hurston

#7. Desegregation is a joke.

Nina Simone

#8. The best reason to take your time is that this time is the only time you'll ever have.

Edward M. Hallowell

#9. Did you hear that, Bernard?" she said, her hand half over the phone. "They're paying her to sleep now."
I could hear my father's exclamation. "Praise the Lord. She's found her dream career.

Jojo Moyes

#10. Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.

Kobe Bryant

#11. Every time I thought the bag must be empty, he brought yet another item out. It was like he'd hijacked Mary Poppins's luggage on her way to a fetish weekend.

Abigail Barnette

#12. When I was younger, people kept making offers for different reality shows and stuff.

Cassidy Gifford

#13. Before I die many will die with me and they'll deserve it. See you in Hell.

Kurt Cobain

#14. Let the Soulful will of all that exists within - gift you the knowledge to fulfill all that is, without.

Eleesha

#15. I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

Emma Stone

#16. Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#17. The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

Lester Bangs