"A dream does not die on its own.……" — Jonathan Kozol
"A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives..."
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106 Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol has 106 quotes on this site.
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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on…
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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.…
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the…
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Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its…
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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…
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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with…
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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
— Richard Bach
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and…
— Lance Armstrong
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
— Darren Aronofsky
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
— John Avlon
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