"We continue, however, to write about important people,……" — Jonathan Kozol
"We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people."
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106 Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
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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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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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But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function,…
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
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So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks.…
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What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
— Maya Angelou
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We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and…
— Jeff Sessions
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together,…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people…
— Steven Biko
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I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
— Frances Farenthold
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Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
— Jesse Jackson
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All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not…
— Leontyne Price
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