Quotes About Discrimination In Education

#1. Happiness was just a trick in your case.

Alice Walker

#2. One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

John M. McHugh

#3. Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

Bob Herbert

#4. Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

Katherine Heigl

#5. Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

Robert Kennedy

#6. I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination.

Richard Lamm

#7. The Negro's economic problem was compounded by the emergence and growth of automation. Since discrimination and lack of education confined him to unskilled and semi-skilled labor, the Negro was and remains the first to suffer in these days of great technological development.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. I am spilling fire on every side. But I do not trust the 500 billion flames which I am training like dogs.

Paul Eluard

#9. [Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

Ellen Glasgow

#10. Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused on something when so many of my friends were out robbing 7-Elevens.

Daughn Gibson

#11. I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.

Markus Persson

#12. Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

Sargent Shriver

#13. Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional ... All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

Earl Warren

#14. Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

Ryan White

#15. Life is a precious gift, but we realize this only when we give it to others.

Pope Francis

#16. All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

Earl Warren

#17. I'll back up anything my dad says.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#18. I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.

Clarence Thomas

#19. Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

Alexis Herman

#20. Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else.

Walter Martin

#21. Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#22. If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

Arthur Capper

#23. It is true that I opposed quotas in employment, education, and other areas. I consider quotas, whether they favor blacks or whites, men or women, to be a new form of discrimination as bad as the old ones.

Ronald Reagan