John Hechinger Quotes

The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. The negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man.

I know that there is an objection to the association of colored children with white children in the same schools. This prejudice exists in my own State. It would be impossible to carry a proposition to educate the few colored children that now live in that State in the same school houses with white children.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

More than any other institution in American life, the public schools have broken down the barriers of class, race, religion, gender, ethnicity, language and disability status that separate people.

It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation, or association of persons to maintain or operate any college, school, or institution where persons of the white and negro races are both received as pupils for instruction.

Colleges sort as much as they teach.

To ignore race and sex is racist and sexist.

Education is more than buildings and faculties. It is a habit of mind. With the 14th Amendment, states do not have the choice. Segregation violates equal protection. Separate education is not sufficient for today's problems. It is not reasonable to educate people separately for a joint life

Because of unconquerable prejudice resulting from their color, [freed slaves] never could amalgamate with the free whites of this country.

It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society’s approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.

The class struggle, to which Marx has specially drawn attention, is a real factor, the tokens of which are to be found on every page of history. But the struggle is not confined only to two classes: the proletariat and the capitalist; it occurs between an infinite number of groups with different interests, and above all between the elites contending for power. The existence of these groups may vary in duration, they may be based on permanent or more or less temporary characteristics. In the most savage peoples, and perhaps in all, sex determines two of these groups.

Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization

In this respect, higher education is now causing most of the growing inequality and strengthening class structure of the United States.

I have consistently opposed forced bussing to achieve integration.

some fraternities are guilty of encouraging and rewarding sexual conquest that condones or normalizes sexual assault.

It's incredibly hard out there for women of color.

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

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

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.