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America Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- East St. Louis-which the local press refers to as "an inner city without an outer city"-has some of the sickest children in America. Of 66…
- An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically…
- It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
- 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…
- 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…
- Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when…
- I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality…
More America Quotes
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon