« All 100 Years Quotes · Jonathan Kozol's Page

100 Years Quotes by Jonathan Kozol

1 100 Years quote by Jonathan Kozol

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

More Quotes by Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol has 106 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I…
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do…
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.…
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of…
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is…
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand…
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value…
Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image…
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge…
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

See all 106 quotes by Jonathan Kozol »

More 100 Years Quotes

Popular 100 Years quotes from across the collection:

I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did… — Fiona Apple
I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool… — Krysten Ritter
I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian… — Amos Oz
I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago. — David Blaine
Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening… — Reed Hastings
Shale gas has provided the United States the opportunity to have 100 years of supply that is domestically produced. If we are… — Ken Salazar
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older,… — Charles Kuralt
The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed. — Erich Honecker
Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly… — Harri Holkeri
We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It… — Anne Dudley
In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will… — Reed Hastings
Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal. — Cecile Richards

See all 100 Years Quotes »

Browse Jonathan Kozol Quotes by Category