Zitate und Sprüche von Jonathan Kozol

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

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.

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

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

No one has ever been delighted to be in Boston in December. December? What are you excited about? "Oh, I love chapped lips and getting thrown up on by Patriots fans, how peachy."

Welcome to Boston, where the weather is made up and the seasons don't matter.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Let's be honest: There's no better college town than Boston.

We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

Everything about Boston is unique. It isn't one thing. Boston is its own deal.

When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.

If you haven't taken pics on Acorn Street, strolled through the Public Garden, or kayaked on the Charles, do you actually live in Boston?

Boston is a city that has the power to convince you to change what teams you root for.

Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

You can leave Boston, but it will never leave you.

There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.

Dizzy: "My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything."
Jean Rasczak: "Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that."
Carmen: "They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed."
Jean Rasczak: "Correct. Naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion, that violence doesn't solve anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always die."

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.