Earl Warren

"To separate children 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."

"All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield."

"In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education."

"We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place."

"The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism."

"Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism."