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.