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The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature jails, really. It’s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.

There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.

But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.

We are not entitled to success we have to earn it