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.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

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.

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

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but it´s such a nothing.

Does this world feel like hell to you? Of course it does, because it is.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.

For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.