Jonathan Kozol Quotes

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the problem is insufficient knowledge. We lack the theological will to do it.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and turn this way or that, and identifies them, like a signature, though it lurks far deeper than their style, or their voice or other telltale antics?

Andre Aciman

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Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

John Oliver

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A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

Anna Freud

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At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.

Angie Thomas

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I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

Trevor Paglen

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If I go racing tomorrow and I have five rides that all get beaten, all I want to do is get out there the next day and put it right. I hate having Sundays off; I hate having any day off.

Tony McCoy

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I'm from Minnesota and have always lived there. And my competitive career actually started in the late '90s racing motocross, which then turned into racing snowmobiles professionally. I turned pro in 2003, racing with the best in the world and living my dream as a professional athlete.

Mike Schultz

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Not everyone can lead worship.

Michael W. Smith

WorshipEveryoneLead

Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. Now it's kind of normal to do that.

Jordan Knight

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Progressives should be willing to talk about ways to ensure the long-term viability of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, but those conversations should not be part of a plan to avert the fiscal cliff.

Dick Durbin

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All my prayers go out to Tyson Fury. I know it's difficult to be in his situation.

Deontay Wilder

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I love fashion. I like looking fresh and wearing new stuff.

Austin Mahone

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