"An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true."

-- Jonathan Kozol

#School Quotes #College Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.”
“Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1977). “We Must March My Darlings: A Critical Decade”, Harcourt
“In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.”
“The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.”
“Anytime I need any type of strength, the relationships that I have had with my closest friends for the majority of my life, is my home.”
“In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.”
“I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism”

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