Home / Quotes / Quote by Richard Rorty

Quote by Richard Rorty

“I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.”

Quote by Richard Rorty

Author

Richard Rorty was an influential American philosopher, born on October 4, 1931, and passed away on June 8, 2007. Known for his unique linguistic philosophy and critical rationalism, his ideas had a profound impact on the philosophical world in the late 20th century. more

You May Also Like

“I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.”

Thinking Left Talking Issues Conservative Lunch Buckets

Author:Richard Rorty

“Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.”

Wells Country Differences Levels Talking Ought Europe Labor Organization Trade Unions Workers International Competing Indonesia Trade Unions Confederation

Author:Richard Rorty

“Children, of course, don't understand at first that they are being cheated. They come to school with a degree of faith and optimism, and they often seem to thrive during the first few years. It is sometimes not until the third grade that their teachers start to see the warning signs of failure. By the fourth grade many children see it too.”

Source: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

“East St. Louis-which the local press refers to as "an inner city without an outer city"-has some of the sickest children in America. Of 66 cities in Illinois, East St. Louis ranks first in fetal death, first in premature birth, and third in infant health.”

Firsts Children America Cities Birth Thirds Presses East Locals Infant Premature Illinois Inner City

Book:Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Source: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

“The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very poor to lend their credence to a market system that has proved so obdurate and so resistant to their pleas at every turn?”

Reason School Turns Choices House Black White Poor Education Plans Agendas White House Mechanism Advancing Credence School Choice

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest need but to the children of the highest bidder-the child of parents who, more frequently than not, have also enjoyed the same abundance when they were schoolchildren.”

Needs Children Doe Facts Nations Parent Money Highest Resources Enjoyed Abundance Grain Immense Famine

Book:Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Source: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

“In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.”

Years Has Beens Social Teaching Policy Hundred Public School Schooling Social Policy

Book:Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Source: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

“On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland Park and Evanston-are assigned to classes with no teacher.”

May Children Class Teacher Teaching Students Parks Monday Friday

Book:Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Source: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

“I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations”

Challenges Lows Expectations Bigotry Low Expectations

Book:The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

Source: The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

“I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.”

Trying Made Kids Half Five Dad Dollars My Dad Stores Cents Candy Pennies Bucks Borrowed Inventory Candy Stores

Author:Guy Fieri