Jonathan Kozol Quotes

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

John B. S. Haldane

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The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.

John Oliver

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To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Robert Graves

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The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

Shirley MacLaine

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The first time I went to Fenway Park was probably 1950. It was the early '50s, and it was my father taking me to the game.

Mike Barnicle

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As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate.

Jose Garces

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In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.

Dominic Cooper

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I kill hype for a living.

Dominick Cruz

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The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

Bodhidharma

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I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

William H. Wharton

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You've got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.

Tim Rice

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For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.

Lysander Spooner

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