The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.

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.

In life, you got two objectives. Make money and make a change.

I study nature so as not to do foolish things.

Marriage is holy and it's private.

Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other

President Obama invited John McCain to the White House to give his opinion on Egypt, specifically what it's like to be a mummy.

By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

Back in the day, I came up with the expression "Same Animal - Different Cages" to describe our songs. I suppose over the years I've just broadened the meaning of that.

An extremely effective instrument would be to put a price on carbon. It is only through the market that you can get a large enough and rapid enough response [to climate change]

Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns