All Jonathan Kozol Quotes
- Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their… Advance
- False hope is worse than despair. Change
- I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I feel eating an… Courage
- I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can empower teachers and… Been
- Charity isn't a good substitute for justice. Adversity
- The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely… Any
- I have an enormous sense of having failed in life. Enormous
- I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature. Aesthetic
- All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. All
- I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection… Aspects
- In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable. Becomes
- Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with… All
- Discrimination is alive and soaring. Alive
- So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and… Aesthetic
- Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population… Business
- Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and… Agencies
- Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to… America
- I have always felt my role was to do anything I could to enable the powerless to speak. I want America to hear these voices… Always Felt
- No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it. Bended
- In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college. Bronx
- We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the… Children
- It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers. Blind
- A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my… All
- 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 children… Any
- Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left… Act