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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.


Maggie Gallagher


#became #beginning #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.


Jonathan Kozol


#awful #basically #college #come #equal

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.


Jonathan Kozol


#children #crime #deepest #isolation #minority

Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.


Jeff Zucker


#aggregate #businesses #different #good #i

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.


Jonathan Kozol


#children #commodities #into #jobs #line

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.


Jonathan Kozol


#black #children #class #enrollment #i

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


Jonathan Kozol


#come #education #public #public education #racial

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.


Jonathan Kozol


#any #become #deeply #high #high school

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.


Jonathan Kozol


#any #death #king #luther #martin

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.


Jonathan Kozol


#evil #go #hospitals #know #segregation