Jonathan Kozol

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#children #commodities #into #jobs #line

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. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#advantage #already #anything #benefited #even

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#between #difference #dream #eradicated #greatest

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

#awful #basically #college #come #equal

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#i #know #moral #neck #never

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#need #poor #poorest #possible #recruitment

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#automatically #clever #culture #devised #guilt

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#bad #bad weather #conditions #does #happen

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#among #apartheid #confronted #education #educators

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#big #big enough #enough #matter #pick