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Nara
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“One thing I have learned over the years, is that people are not islands, but archipelagoes.” “Don’t say it like that, Kip. Don’t make it easy.” “It is easy, as easy as a poem, and it is hard, hard as living in the world.”
“Childhood does not exist to serve the national economy. In a healthy nation, it should be the other way around.”
― Letters to a Young Teacher
― Letters to a Young Teacher
“Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.”
― The Long Haul: An Autobiography
― The Long Haul: An Autobiography
“Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that needs asking. But they do not ask what can be done about the values of the people who have segregated these communities. There is no academic study of the pathological detachment of the very rich...”
― Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
― Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
“Sometimes," he [Congressmen John Lewis] said, "you have to ask for something that you know you may not get. And still you have to ask for it. It's still worth fighting for and, even if you don't believe that you will see it in your lifetime, you have got to hold it up so that the generation that comes next will take it from your hands and, in their own time, see it as a goal worth fighting for again.”
― The Shame of the Nation
― The Shame of the Nation
“I want to correct something I told you once,' she says. 'You asked me once if I thought white people wish that Puerto Rican and black people would just die or go away. I thought it over and I changed my mind. I don’t think they wish that we would die. I think they wish that we were never born. Now that we’re here, I think they don’t know what they ought to do. I think that that’s the biggest problem in their minds about poor people.' She adds politely, 'I’m not talkin’ about all of the white people. Some of them feel this way. Some of them don’t. Some of them don’t feel nothin’. Some are nice people but they can’t get nothin’ done and so they put it out of mind.”
― Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
― Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
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