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White Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
- The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very…
- Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.
- During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time…
- Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of…
- In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing…
More White Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer. — Neil Armstrong
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd
- It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands… — Michele Bachmann
- I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently… — Josephine Baker
- American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at… — Russell Baker
- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac