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Jonathan Kozol

"There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before."

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.53, Broadway Books

Jonathan Kozol

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“I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams.”
“When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You're able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias, and aggression. You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And, you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start to do things differently.”
“Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.”

Source : "Live Chat with Dana Spiotta". Interview with Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. August 23, 2011.
“Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the crystallographers, have had considerable influence on my work of the last twenty years. The laws of the phenomena around us--order, regularity, cyclical repetition, and renewals--have assumed greater and greater importance for me. The awareness of their presence gives me peace and provides me with support. I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.”
“We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.”
“I'm really into mainstream rap and R&B, but I never saw myself as intertwined in that world.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.”

Source : "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.
“You need to just get started. If you never get started, you'll never be successful.”

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