Brown v.Board of Education (1954)

This case is about how Black children were denied admission to pubic schools.  This filed lawsuit against Topeka, a Kansas school board and Oliver Brown, a parent of one of the children who was denied access to Topeka's white school.  Brown's claim was that this racial segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteen Amendment.  This case was consolidate with other five cases His case was dismissed by the federal district court, the ruling was that segregated public schools were substantially equal enough to be constitutional under the Plessy doctrine.

The quote that I chose is: "racial segregation in public education has detrimental effect on minority children because it is interpreted as a sign of inferiority." The reason why I picked this quote is because segregation in the United States has existed from a long time, specially during the 1940s and 1950s when a lot of demographic changes took place and it led to the challenge and overturning of the "separate but equal" approach.
This court case is of importance because it is shows modern civil rights movement inspiring education reform all over the United States and it also challenged segregation in all areas of our society.  The Brown case is interesting and controversial because it is dealing with African Americas, a minority group.  After this case too place, a big step towards opening the doors for education for all students got opened .  Segregation existed towards African Americans for a long time and I believe that its roots comes from slavery.  There was also segregation in transportation among other areas.  When you look at the idea of "separated but equal", I believe that it extended the mistreatment and suppression of African Americans in the United States because then how do we explain the idea that being separated will make us equal? when in reality is isolating us, if we want equality in the United States we should be able to share schools, transportation, and other things in our society and that should make us equal as we are treated the same and not inferior and superior because our skin color.

Inauguration of Ronald Reagan January 20, 1981.

"We are a nation that has a government, not the other way around and this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that credited by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having ground beyond the consent of the government" by President Ronald Reagan, 1981.
The reason why I picked this quote is because it goes back to what we have discuss before, the power and control that government have.  According to Reagan's quote, the only power that government should have is the power that people give it and the needs and the wants of people should be reflected  by the way the government operates.  I do not completely agree that the power that government has is all authorized by the people because there are a lot of things that government decides and hides without people's consent.  For example: a lot of classified information has been hidden from us without our consent, and I believe that to some extent we the people need to be informed about everything that is taking place and going on around the world and specially in our nation.   In order to be governed the people have to provide consent and the way to provide consent is by being a Democracy and allowing people to vote for their favorite political candidate.  The other day I was watching a federal state prison documentary, where former prisoners talked about not being enough jail programs to prepare them to integrate them back into society once they were out.  So we see a weakness on that side of our government.