Segregated School Quotes

#1. A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

Malcolm X

#2. I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

Michael Eric Dyson

#3. I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.

Jonathan Kozol

#4. I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.

Bill Frisell

#5. Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Andre Breton

#6. I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

Charles Kuralt

#7. It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

Roger Waters

#8. as a woman i know the difference between appreciation and teeth. what really hurts is that as a girl i had to know the same thing.

Nayyirah Waheed

#9. I will see my father in every anger.

Courtney Summers

#10. We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

Jonathan Kozol

#11. I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.

Stromae

#12. Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

Derwin L. Gray

#13. 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

#14. I think people are finally realising that women are interesting and more interesting the older they get. But it's taken a while for that realisation to happen.

Christine Bottomley

#15. I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If anybody knows a racist, I do. Pat Buchanan ain't no racist.

Ezola B. Foster