“'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' pr...” — Jonathan Kozol Quote

“'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go.”

“You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.”

“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.”

“Getting finance together can take a while.”

“In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically and in sophistication.”

“The single most important personal finance decision you make is your career.”