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.
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on...
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or...
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum...
The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized...
No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains they're...
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist all of us who are given...
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest...
The primary victims of Katrina those who were given the least help by the...
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are we are...
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school far...
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and...
What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or...
If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed...
We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take...
Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for...
Without economic development any potential for political openness and...
The very first things that I did even in theater were bad guys. They are...
To me music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say 'If I...