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.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

I always wanted a beautiful loving wife and she always wanted to be a citizen.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.

I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality behind.

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.