Political Quotes

“60 years ago, America was a country entrenched in inequality. Whites and African Americans were treated as two separate classes. Our society's education system, perhaps our most influential and important institution for future success, kept White and Black children separate and wholly unequal. Then, in 1954, the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. The Board of Education, argued and won by the legendary Justice Thurgood Marshall, rewove the fabric of our divided Nation, and moved our country down the path towards the civil rights victories of the 1960s. The decision was, according to Sherrilyn Ifill, the current president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund: The beginning of the end of legal apartheid in the United States. Laws of the Jim Crow that were intentionally designed to ensure that Blacks and Whites were not treated equally were finally questioned by our Nation's highest courts. The dream of a country where all men are created equal and treated equally under the law became a potential reality. But it would still take decades of tireless activism by multiple generations of civil rights leaders and organizers to get us where we are today. Brown v. The Board of Education, this decision was the first step toward a reality of equality and was a drastic change for a court that had previously been detrimental to past civil rights actions and cases.…”