If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

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.

If you don’t have regular and accurate financial statements, you’re driving your business 100 miles an hour down a one-way street the wrong way, at night, in the fog, without lights.

You must remember that you are called to save and set others free, to raise and develop strong and powerful leaders, who will form the government of the nations for Christ

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

South Korea are pushing for a stronger way to isolate and punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

Without pain, we couldn't know joy.

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

Unjust rule does not last forever.