Desegregated Schools Quotes & Sayings

There will be glimpses of hope, shards of refracted light at the Cross when Jesus is crucified, but on the way there is very little. Sobering, yet truthful. We are reminded that others who have sought hope and freedom have had to endure without much to go on, too. — Megan McKenna

Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent. — Robert Kennedy

With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully. — John Burnside

The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them. — Walter Salles

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving. — Jonathan Davis

I think it's important to hug. It costs nothing and it's a really lovely way of showing that you care. — Stephen Gately

I had blackouts, fallen out, of course, the death threats, people showing up, putting guns to my wife's head with mask, and people having shot guns in the driveway, looking for me or announcing that I've already died before lectures and sending it through newspaper - sending it to newspaper columns they send my mother and so on. There's a real night side to my particular calling, which is try to bear witness to love and truth. — Cornel West