"Discrimination is alive and soaring." — Jonathan Kozol

Discrimination is alive and soaring. - Jonathan Kozol

"Discrimination is alive and soaring."

— Jonathan Kozol

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106 Quotes by Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol has 106 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on…
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit.…
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you…
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate…
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens.…
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going…
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the…
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its…
Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity…
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with…
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were… — Wystan Hugh Auden
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,… — Marcus Aurelius
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. — Paul Auster
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up… — Michele Bachmann
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and… — Pearl Bailey
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me… — James A. Baldwin
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express… — Ansel Adams
My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful… — Travis Barker
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then… — Roseanne Barr
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I… — Roseanne Barr

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