Jonathan Kozol Quotes
Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.
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The clothes do not match my personality. I'm more of a very conservative, blue-blazer kind of guy. But as far as my personality, it's a lot of hot-dog mustard - have a lot of a fun and a lot of excitement. I feel like I'm 68; I act like I'm 12, talking about a game of basketball.
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A veces hallo tan grande a la miseria que temo necesitar de ella.
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Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.
