Jonathan Kozol Quotes

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

Jonathan Kozol

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• Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Struggle
  • Strength
  • Where

• A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Struggle

• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Children
  • Money
  • Struggle

• 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.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • People
  • Life
  • Struggle

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Great
  • May
  • Job

• Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Struggle

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Small
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • True
  • Hand
  • Struggle

• 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.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Relationship

• We live because of the dreams.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Because

• Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Struggle
  • For Him

• My weight has always been a struggle for me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Always
  • Struggle

• 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.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Die

• 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.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Nice

• Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • First
  • Essential
  • Secrecy

• During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Women
  • America

• 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.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Value

• What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Real
  • Struggle

• So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

  

  Douglas Haig
  • Long
  • Struggle
  • Moral

• I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.

  

  Philip Selway Radiohead
  • Resilience

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• It's not the way I want to move up the tables, ... I want a proper podium and that's what I'll be working hard for, but I'm pretty happy with the season's best placing.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It's like the song "Amazing Grace": I was blind and now I see.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Song

• My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Struggle