Political Quotes

“50 years ago, a third grade girl named Linda walked a full mile each way to school, crossing through a dangerous railroad switchyard to do it. Only five blocks from her home was a very nice local school, but when her father petitioned for her admission, he was denied. Why? Because she was not white. Fortunately, her father would not give up, and because of his tenacity, 50 years later, we can celebrate the landmark decision of Brown v. the Topeka Board of Education. Since Thurgood Marshall argued his most important case involving over 200 plaintiffs in front of the same bench that he would later sit on, we have made great strides. We have done away with the ridiculous idea that separate could ever be equal. We have legalized desegregation. Colleges and universities are becoming increasingly more diverse as parents who did not attend college are now able to send their children to institutions of higher education. But there is so much more still to do. Until children of all backgrounds receive the same quality of teaching, have access to the same quality of learning resources, and graduate from high school and secondary education at the same rate, our work is not finished. Despite the Supreme Court's declaration in that landmark decision that education 'is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms,' our country still remains far from providing an equal education to all.”