Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

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.

Why should I take my clothes off (...) when there are, already, so many other woman doing it for me?

You don’t look injured to me. What am I supposed to think? Have you been with them this whole time? My god, Brook. Where were you?

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.