A teacher always has to make the effort. Whether it's Chicano history or any other. We don't want to go back to the way things were, back when black kids got hand-me-down text books after white kids had used them ? if they got textbooks at all.


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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitution...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literatu...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaught...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Chri...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and th...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. N...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, i...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
The poorest people are the sweetest people.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into t...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
In any profession it gets to be a grind.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened ...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical backgro...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frigh...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supp...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoy...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity...
WASHINGTON IRVING
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away a...
WASHINGTON IRVING
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them you...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husband...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are...
GEORGE WASHINGTON