Lamagna Michael Quotes & Sayings

Fifty years after Brown, we should have learned that there is no magic in white classmates. The magic lies at the intersection of educational opportunity and attitude - the coming together of teachers who know how to teach and children who are ready to learn. No one thing - not the ballot, not changes in school governance, not desegregation - will produce that happy confluence. We have to demand that the schools get ready for our children. But we also have to make sure, using every resource at our disposal, that our children are ready for school. — William Raspberry

I still don't believe I won the U.S. Open. It's so far-fetched for me. — Andy Roddick

We're all given something to do. And when we don't follow what we're supposed to do, we always know when we're off track. — Joy Harjo

The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis. The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact - of absolute undeniable fact - from the embellishments of theorists and reporters. Then, having established ourselves upon this sound basis, it is our duty to see what inferences may be drawn and what are the special points upon which the whole mystery turns. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It's not enough to abolish abuse; custom must also be transformed. The mill was pulled down, but the wind still blows. — Victor Hugo