Jonathan Kozol Quotes

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Colorado does not shut down. Colorado does not quit. Colorado does not break.

John Hickenlooper

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There are people out there every day really fighting the fight for equal rights, equal pay, equal treatment. They're inspiring.

Amy Landecker

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History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

Sondre Lerche

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I like to turn the venue into a jungle gym, into my playground.

Tory Lanez

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I never, ever want to be in a position where people are sitting round a table, saying, 'We've got this book. I don't really get it, but we paid for it, so we've got to sell it.' I'm not Tony Parsons; that's not right for me.

Michel Faber

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Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

Miranda Hart

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Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.

Jason Reitman

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More idiots should just shut their mouths.

Chris Martin

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I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

Boris Johnson

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In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.

Brad Garrett

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First of all, I want people to understand that I'm here to create for them. To create music for people so they'll know that I'm a source of love. And they can depend on my name.

Brian Wilson

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It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

Anne Bronte

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