I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

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.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.

It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world.

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief.

Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him

Subsidize... or lend.

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.