"We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.“

-Jonathan Kozol

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"By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there."

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"I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure."

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"I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy."

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"The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail."

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"So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage."

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"The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society."

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"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."

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"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

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