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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I…
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We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do…
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.…
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Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of…
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
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The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is…
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If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand…
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…
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Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value…
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Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image…
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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge…
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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
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I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the…
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They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life…
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I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as…
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Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They…
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We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into…
— Robert D. Brinsmead
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They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of…
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They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.
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When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried.
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Personally, I liked working for the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything. You've never been…
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They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
— Unknown Author
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Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots…
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He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a…
— John Lennon
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