The best Quotes by 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.

Hiroshima

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.

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You're gonna like Massachusetts. It's very patriotic - perfect for a fresh start.

Georgia Miller in Ginny & Georgia - Season 1 Episode 1

Massachusetts

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Uma Thurman

Massachusetts

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Warren

Massachusetts

The man in the White House is not the cause of what is broken, he is just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America. A product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else.

Elizabeth Warren (as Senator of Massachusetts) - February 9, 2019

Massachusetts

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

Mitt Romney

Massachusetts

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

George W. Bush

Massachusetts

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Massachusetts - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Massachusetts

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."

Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - December 2022

New England Patriots Boston

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

Boston

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

Bill Bryson

Boston

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

Boston

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Boston

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

Bill Burr

Boston

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.

John Williams

Boston

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

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

Boston Boston Celtics

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

Mark Twain

Boston Philadelphia

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.

Leonard Nimoy

Boston

Ireland... Europe's Boston.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Ireland Boston

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

Boston

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Boston - which is kinda the same.

Boston

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

Zack Greinke

Boston

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."

Lt. Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers

Violence Hiroshima

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

Edward Bond

Hiroshima

Stan: "Dude, it actually wasn't a dolphin and a whale who bombed hiroshima, it was the..."
Cartman: "Dude, they won't rest until whoever is responsible is completely wiped out!"

Eric Cartman in South Park - Season 13 Episode 11

Hiroshima

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

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