Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

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.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

But part of surviving is being able to move on.

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

I'm so misunderstood!

When I was 18 years old, about to develop my sportsman career, the asthma complaints became already some years before.

The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word.

If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.