Chris Rock Quotes

The abolition of the separate school system in the south raises serious practical problems.... We face the abolition of the public school system. Boldness is essential but wisdom is indispensable.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

I am opposed to busing for the purpose of achieving racial balance in our schools.

The United States Office of Education has likewise been guilty of spreading racial equality propaganda. In a report to the press, Dr. John W. Studebaker, head of the Office of Education, and his Negro assistant, Dr. Ambrose Caliver, who is racial adviser in the office of Education, called upon the colleges and universities of the South to open their doors to Negro students

I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

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.

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

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

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

I have consistently opposed forced bussing to achieve integration.

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, it's time for us to take a hard look at the separate and unequal conditions that still exist in our schools and our communities and rededicate ourselves to fulfilling the promise of equal opportunity for all.

I grew up in the era of the desegregation program. I actually got bussed to a predominately white high school. I didn't have a choice.

In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.

In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal.

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.