Kenneth B. Clark

“To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.”

“Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.”

“We must begin to understand that the public schools are the instruments of the power of the middle class.”

“A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.”

“I was forced to accept the fact that the powerful are not necessarily the wise, the righteous, or the just.”

“The dark ghetto's invisible walls have been erected by the white society, by those who have power, both to confine those who have no power and to perpetuate their powerlessness.”

“A child learns about race, racism, and racial power from the very beginning of his life in our society.”

“Racism is a disease of the white man.”