Jonathan Kozol Quotes

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 5, 1936

Topics

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The beauty of the innovation that flows from the open web is that no one has to ask for permission, get a credential, or win a Disrupt or Launch award to go prove their idea is worthy. They just... put up a page on the web, iterate, iterate, iterate... and eventually, a Facebook emerges.

John Battelle

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It's almost impossible that an argument would naturally form the kind of arch that it does in 'Lifespan'. So, the conversation is constructed.

John D'Agata

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Anyone who is dealing with any issue or any illness whatsoever, without a support network, chances are the person will not survive.

Mauro Ranallo

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Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

John Searle

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Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women.

Stephanie Coontz

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Not everybody even gets to live with their own family because they have to go to L.A. or New York or wherever to work and find a job and leave their family back home. But every day, I get to work with my family - if I want to.

Rob Kardashian

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Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Roberta Flack

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Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

Mike Crapo

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My parents are super excited that they've produced an Olympian. I don't think they ever would have imagined this would happen in a million years, so I hope I represent not only Team U.S.A., but the Japanese-American culture and my family as well.

Mirai Nagasu

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I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.

Jason Lee

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No bad man can be a good poet.

Boris Pasternak

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The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?

Brad D. Smith

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