False hope is worse than despair.

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.'

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.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

The only human disease is amnesia.

A thinker can truly think only when there is true freedom of thought.

Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.

No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.