Best quotes by Jonathan Kozol on America

Checkout quotes by Jonathan Kozol on America

  • 'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.
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  • The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see 'Les Miserables' to come out again and see the real miserable children of America, right there on the sidewalk.
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  • We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
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  • 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.
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  • It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
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  • Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.
    - Jonathan Kozol