Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. — Jonathan Kozol 100 years Copy Share Image
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education. — Jonathan Kozol Education Copy Share Image
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. — Jonathan Kozol Come Copy Share Image
Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal. — Jonathan Kozol Child Copy Share Image
Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see. — Jonathan Kozol Children Copy Share Image
The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking. — Jonathan Kozol Answer Copy Share Image
A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in… — Jonathan Kozol Choices Copy Share Image
It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it. — Jonathan Kozol Exciting Copy Share Image
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. — Jonathan Kozol Books Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children… — Jonathan Kozol America 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 Book Copy Share Image
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how… — Jonathan Kozol Change Copy Share Image
“Evil exists," he says, not flinching at the word. "I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in… — Jonathan Kozol Evil Copy Share Image
No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction… — Jonathan Kozol Behind Copy Share Image
So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun… — Jonathan Kozol Aesthetic Copy Share Image
The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of… — Jonathan Kozol Differences 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… — Jonathan Kozol Any Copy Share Image
People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss… — Jonathan Kozol Balls Copy Share Image
There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on… — Jonathan Kozol Children Copy Share Image
“Many suburban legislators representing affluent school districts use terms such as "sinkhole" when opposing funding for Chicago's children. "We can't keep throwing… — Jonathan Kozol Black hole 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 Amazing Copy Share Image
“We should invest in kids like these," we're told, "because it will be more expensive not to." Why do our natural compassion… — Jonathan Kozol Children 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… — Jonathan Kozol Activist Copy Share Image
“Sometimes," he [Congressmen John Lewis] said, "you have to ask for something that you know you may not get. And still you… — Jonathan Kozol Fight 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… — Jonathan Kozol Education 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… — Jonathan Kozol About Copy Share Image
“Still, the facts are always there. Every teacher, every parent, every priest who serves this kind of neighborhood knows what these inequalities… — Jonathan Kozol Child 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… — Jonathan Kozol Black people 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… — Jonathan Kozol Affirmation Copy Share Image
“She empathized with those who were true victims but, in her own case, she rejected victimhood. The details of life and the… — Jonathan Kozol Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Shorn of unattractive language about "robots" who will be producing taxes and not burglarizing homes, the general idea that schools in ghettoized… — Jonathan Kozol Goals Copy Share Image
“I can say it, but it doesn’t seem convincing to most people. I can call it an ‘injustice,’ but that doesn’t always… — Jonathan Kozol Justice Copy Share Image
“But just as legal segregation in the South was a huge national horror hidden in plain view, so too the massive desolation… — Jonathan Kozol Male privilege Copy Share Image
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated… — Jonathan Kozol Available Copy Share Image
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they… — Jonathan Kozol Assets Copy Share Image
No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no… — Jonathan Kozol Almost 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… — Jonathan Kozol Can do 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… — Jonathan Kozol Asians Copy Share Image
![“Sometimes," he [Congressmen John Lewis] said, "you have to ask for something that you know you may not get. And still you have to ask for it. It's still worth fighting for and, even if you don't believe that you will see it in your lifetime, you have got to hold it up so that the generation that…” quote by Jonathan Kozol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/719/jonathan-kozol-2747_goals_sometimes-he-congressmen-john-lewis-said_1062175.jpg)
