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Us Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is…
- So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories…
- If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and not yet soiled…
- I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling…
- I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost…
- The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although…
- Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.
- 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…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong