Jonathan Kozol Quotes

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

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

Our schools are more segregated today than they have ever been since 1968. The schools that I visit hardly have any white students…. Schools that had desegregated, are now resegregating.

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

The MLK Shabbat Suppers focused on the theme of educational inequity, which Dr. King considered inextricably linked to the struggle for equality and justice.

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.

Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

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

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

There will be no forced integration in Virginia. If Federal troops are sent into Virginia, they will patrol the halls of empty schools.

The time to end racial segregation in the South is upon us now.

Segregation of schools is no accident.

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.

Society continues to pay the bill for the school segregation that was a part of our history.

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

He missed that whole civics lesson about slavery or Jim Crow

My mother was born into a segregated America. How crazy is that?

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.

When I was born in 1959, the hospital in which I arrived had separate floors for black babies and white babies, and it was then illegal for blacks and whites to marry in many states.

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.