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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.

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When I was young, I was religious.

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But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral.

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My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

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We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

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The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.

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I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

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I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.

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I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge but also entice the reader into the lives of children.

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I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 5th, 1936

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