Racial Achievement Gap

Famous quotes containing the words racial, achievement and/or gap:

    “Human beings will be happier—not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.”
    —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)

    “Next to our free political institutions, our free public-school system ranks as the greatest achievement of democratic life in America ...”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    “Here is the place; right over the hill
    Runs the path I took;
    You can see the gap in the old wall still,
    And the stepping-stones in the shallow brook.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)