We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

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.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

Heartbroken men are like wild animals, running around with hysteria in their eyes, desperately trying to knock the dents out of their egos.

It's great to have an honest course where you can use your strength. I swim 10 hours a week, I bike 20 hours a week, and I want to be able to show that.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

Faith is the willingness to risk anything on God.

Free men set themselves free.

I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.

Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

If we're honest with ourselves, most people want to know that there's more to this life, there's more after this life.