Jonathan Kozol Quotes
My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.
Quotes to Explore
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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
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We live because of the dreams.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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My weight has always been a struggle for me.
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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
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If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
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During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
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I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
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You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.
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With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.
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Mark Twain is a voice of truth and a voice of equality and a voice of tolerance. Which means he is a voice of love.
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Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others.
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You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.'
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I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
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My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.
