Quote by Jonathan Kozol
The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least hel

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society. – Jonathan Kozol

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During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. – Jonathan Kozol

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Education
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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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Society
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. – Mark Twain

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Government

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time. – Jon Meacham

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Government

I dont want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I dont want to be controlled by the U.S. – Muqtada al Sadr

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Government

A corporations primary goal is to make money. Governments primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. – Larry Ellison

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Government

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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. – Buddha

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It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of ones inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness. – Coleman Dowell

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I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else. – Charles Kennedy

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I aint scared to do another dating show, but I aint really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. Ive done enough dating on television. Im ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues. – Flavor Flav

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