Political Quotes

“I guess what we are going to have to do in some of these areas, my colleague mentioned education and the difficulties where some of the schools are not up to standard and where individuals do not get the early training, the early education that they really need. I guess we are going to have to even go beyond that. I was just looking and reading how a report, the Flexner Report, which was done as a result of some resources made available by the Carnegie Foundation in 1910, that after the report there were six black medical schools existing at that time, but after the report, four of those six ended up being closed; and the only two left were Meharry and Howard. And so standards in terms of the definition of standards and who set the standards and how the standards are set oftentimes determine the extent to which not only do individuals get in but also the extent to which institutions may continue to thrive, to survive and to function.”