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"If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school."
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"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
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"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
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"The public are not stupid."
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"Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant."
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"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency."
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"The public seldom forgive twice."
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"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."
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"If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means."
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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."
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"Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are."
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"During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed."
Education
"I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education."
Education
"What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later."
People
"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."
Knowledge
"If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream."
Society
"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."
People
"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."
Society
"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."
Policy
"I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students."
People
"Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available."
People
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