When I was young, I was religious.

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.

The enchanted day is only enchanted if we ourselves believe that anything is possible.

Better to beg forgiveness, than to ask for permission anyway.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Chiropractic is a science just so far as it is specific.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.