Quote by Jonathan Kozol
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed chari

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

Other quotes by Jonathan Kozol

The inequalities are greater now than in 92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the equal level very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately. – Jonathan Kozol

Category:
Money
Read Quote

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

Category:
Society
Read Quote

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. – Jonathan Kozol

Category:
Experience
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Christmas
category

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. – W.T. Ellis

Category:
Christmas

My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when its snowing outside. – David Hasselhoff

Category:
Christmas

I might do X Factor next year. Its looking good that I wont get the sack at Christmas. – Gary Barlow

Category:
Christmas

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush. – Bonnie Tyler

Category:
Christmas

Random Quotes

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Nature

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond. – Zack Wamp

Category:
Fear

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. – William E. Borah

Category:
Government

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesnt get done. – Arlie Russell Hochschild

Category:
Marriage