Quote by Jonathan Kozol
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los An

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that theres no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream. – Jonathan Kozol

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Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I dont think it works that way, and Ive been watching this for a longtime. – Jonathan Kozol

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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. – Jonathan Kozol

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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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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them. – Samantha Morton

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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up ones responsibility as a free man. – Alan Paton

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He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist. – Johann Most

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I dont think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think its a choice, but in fact, its in ones nature. The choice is whether one expresses ones nature truthfully or spends the rest of ones life lying about it. – Marlo Thomas

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