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

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

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.

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

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

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

False hope is worse than despair.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

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.

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.

Mickey holds up the soggy paper. DIE. Don't you die.

Our God is an awesome God, he reigns from Heaven above, the most high God of all time.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail

As pissed as a fart in a vacuum cleaner.

And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep." Alfie shrugged, indicating that the universe was mysterious and nothing would ever be fully understood.

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

Negative people need drama like oxygen. Stay positive, it'll take their breath away.

Some feel lonely because they haven't found that perfect 'companion' yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him.

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.