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"You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible."
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"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."
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"Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle."
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Personal Development
"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
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Personal Development
"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
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Personal Development
"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
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Personal Development
"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."
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Personal Development
"Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
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"Though I be poor, I'm honest."
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Personal Development
"The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."
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"But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child."
Time
"Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools."
Behavior
"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
"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
"I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education."
Education
"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
"You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible."
Poor
"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
"Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime."
Education
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