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"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."
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"Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools."
Behavior
"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
"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
"Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start."
Reading
"You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible."
Poor
"In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school."
Family
"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
"Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions."
Politics
"When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement."
Hope
"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."
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"There are no new inventions, only new discoveries."
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"The only gift to yourself is your ability to seek knowledge."
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Personal Development
"Ignorance is the darkest depths."
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"Curiosity is a daring faith."
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Personal Development
"Knowledge' may be there but 'correctness' is required along with it. If you have 'knowledge' but don't have the 'correctness'; you will go to moksha, but others will not gain any benefit!"
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Personal Development
"Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years."
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Personal Development
"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
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Personal Development
"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."
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Personal Development
"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
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"Reading the timeless stories strengthen my spirit in times of suffering."
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Personal Development
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