Quote by Jonathan Kozol
But for the children of the poorest people were stripping the curr

But for the children of the poorest people were stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. Were not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. – Jonathan Kozol

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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

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Freedom
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We are now operating a school system in America thats more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King. – Jonathan Kozol

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Death
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. Its blasphemy. – Jonathan Kozol

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Christmas
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Music
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Theres no religion but sex and music. – Sting

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Music

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music. – Bruce Springsteen

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Music

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. – Billie Joe Armstrong

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Music

Theres something missing in the music industry today… and its music. Songs you hear dont last, its just product fed to you by the industry. – Jimmy Buffett

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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. – C.S. Lewis

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I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. – Robert Wyatt

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respect

You have enemies? Good. That means youve stood up for something, sometime in your life. – Winston Churchill

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good

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do? – Christiane Amanpour

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respect