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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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War takes people's lives and destroys property, but it does not resolve the world's problems. If anything is achieved through war, it…
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace…
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Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
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It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It…
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We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness…
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The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your…
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Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the…
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That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety - our own security - depends upon our willingness…
— Barack Obama
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A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
— Mark Richard
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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