Educational Discrimination Quotes

I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

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.

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.

Those labeled felons may be denied the right to vote, are automatically excluded from juries, and may be legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education, public benefits, much like their grandparents or great grandparents may have been discriminated against during the Jim Crow era.

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

We see all around the world where women's rights are denied, where governments don't believe in educating their girls. There are 800 million people in the world who are illiterate and 75 percent of them are women and girls.

There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

The teachers are being screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system and the government doesn’t seem to care.

No student who shall be expelled from a university by a decision of the university senate which was ratified or prompted by the agent of the government, or who shall have left the institution in order to escape expulsion, shall be received in any other university... .

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

Evils of the gravest kind are likely to result from the so-called public schools.

I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.

My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.

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

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.