Jonathan Kozol Quotes

We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.

I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.

For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.

In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.

If the party members want 15 left handed, Lithuanian lesbians they can have them.

I am working for the time when unqualified Blacks, Browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

Barbara Lee Speaks for Me!

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

A new hat, rather a bonnet, was tossed into the Democratic Presidential race today. Mrs. Shrilly Chisholm, the first Black woman to serve in Congress.

There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers.

I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.

I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?

The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are heroes. People who, when you walk down the street, you see them feeding their little baby - these people are heroes because they are living under difficult situations, but they're still trying to save a life.

I don't see that we're any different than many, many people that are out there. And it's hard to kind of accept something like we're larger than life, super-people or something like that.

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.