I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“There is a belief advanced today, and in some cases by conservative black authors, that poor children and particularly black children should… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the old joining… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“Unless we have the wealth to pay for private education, we are compelled by law to go to public school—and to the public school… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“I want to correct something I told you once,' she says. 'You asked me once if I thought white people wish that Puerto Rican… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If,… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
