The most memorable quotes in the Chattanooga Times Free Press for Feb. 22-27.
“I liken it to Brown vs. Board of Education. I think we may have reached the point … this time [for a court] to say, ‘Fund this with all deliberate speed.'”
— Hamilton County Schools attorney D. Scott Bennett, on the possibility of a lawsuit to increase school funding
“You can do a lot to fight crime in the city of Chattanooga, or the city of Calcutta, but if the bad guys who prey on the weak and vulnerable or the poor don’t fear the police, then they will not stop.”
— Holly Burkhalter, with the International Justice Mission, on an initiative by Sen. Bob Corker to raise wipe out human trafficking worldwide
“I am disgusted and ashamed to be a part of this board. … Vengeance is mine.”
— Christy Critchfield, who resigned from the Bradley County school board after its 4-3 vote to buy out Superintendent Johnny McDaniel’s contract
“That’s one of those things that you didn’t really realize at the time how significant it was. … But looking back on it now, I’m proud of that particular time and the fact that I was a part of that change.”
— Randell High, a sophomore on the Howard basketball team that faced Notre Dame 40 years ago in only Tennessee’s second interracial sports game in state history