Chris Hayes Quotes

I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone.

We should celebrate the fact that, unlike some countries in the world, the United States makes promises that we will never send any student away from our schools.

STEM education is an area where we can't afford to leave anyone behind.

Segregation has no place in the education system.

Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects our commitment to equal opportunity while fully respecting the academic standards of the University.

I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.

A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

There are only two positions, either you support multiculturalism in American education, or you support the maintenance of white supremacy.

My goal for the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign is to create systemic change across all school systems. I want there to be diverse books that reflect the lives of every person, regardless of whether or not they are in the majority.

I am a scientist. To be specific, I am a woman scientist. This, I have been told and have come to believe, is a good thing. In fact, it is such a good thing that America needs more of us. Everyone seems to be very sure of this. The thing that no one is sure about, however, is how to make it happen.

Community colleges are in every district in this state, they serve Republican and Democratic families and non-partisan and non-political families as well.

Drs. Pinkett and Robinson choose to BE the message that they bring! They don't just enumerate the problems but offer solid solutions for navigating pathways to business ownership, and the halls and boardrooms of previously 'all white' corporate America. Black Faces in White Places is a necessary tool for anyone trying to make their own magic happen.

I think for what success looks like for me, it is a world in which you can look at the achievement scores, the academic scores, of any school anywhere in this country [the USA], and you wouldn't be able to look at the score and determine what the racial makeup or the socioeconomic makeup of that school is simply because of the academic achievement levels.

Women that look like me [the black ones] need to see more of themselves in social media, in film, in music.

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red reservations and brown barrios and yellow slices.