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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At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book. – Jonathan Kozol

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amazing
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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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Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nations competitive needs. – Jonathan Kozol

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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. – P. J. ORourke

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History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? – Jon Meacham

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The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. – Milton Friedman

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All government, of course, is against liberty. – H. L. Mencken

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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. – Andrew Jackson

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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan

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I talk to God but the sky is empty. – Sylvia Plath

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And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art. – John B. S. Haldane

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