I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. Its blasphemy. – Jonathan Kozol
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage. – Jonathan Kozol
I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education. – Jonathan Kozol
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