A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

False hope is worse than despair.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

Memories dancing through ageless ripples of time, waiting to be shared.

God never encourages self-reliance.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution - except one. We should not - we must not - and I will not - raise taxes.

Every generation in America has faced the same question, do we we want America to be special? Or do we just want America to be another country? The time has come again.

Antonin Scalia knows that freedom of speech has consequences. And the consequences of freedom of speech are speech you don't like, that you don't want to hear, that you don't want to listen to.