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Laila 2022-03-16 08:01:01

1.Pollute, defile, pollute, desecrate. (Let's make three sentences with different meanings together.)

2. They can't crucify me, I have hammers and nails, I can't be anyone's victim.

3. "Now is an opportunity for us to change, support each other, and see if we can change this school." "No one else wants to do it?" "I don't want anyone else." "Well, count me in."

4. "The truth is that despite all your talk, your fame, and your seeming ability, what have you done?! Nothing! You are nothing but insignificant, as if you never came into this world. However, it makes no difference whether you exist or not, just live like this for the rest of your life!"

5. "Take off all the cages in the cafeteria, you treat them like animals and they will behave like animals!"

6. "Discipline is definitely not the enemy of vitality! Absolutely not!"

7. "Forget your old ways, we don't need any democracy here, we are in a critical moment, my word is the law! There is only one boss here, and that's me!"

8. "People say a school is dead and it's like a cemetery in the past, but I said, the students of our Eastside school are elves. What are elves, elves are the souls of those who died, I hope you are my elves, Let's revive this school together and let the prophecies that we are doomed go bankrupt! My proclamation is simple, if you fail in your life, don't blame your parents, don't blame white people (people with natural advantages) ), blame yourself, it is you who is responsible!"

9. "If you don't master the basic skills, you are excluded, excluded from the American dream, you are here with only one mission, and that is to learn, to work for your hope, and everything else is a waste of time. It's your cowardice, crime, drugs, death trap. Do you understand? Everyone understands?! Then I welcome you to the new Eastside High School!"

10. "One rotten apple destroys a branch, what about 300 rotten apples? 300 rotten apples?!"

11. "It's a war, it's a war to give up 300 rotten apples to save another 2,700 students!"

12. "If you want to help us and ourselves, it's for students to learn so they can stop relying on relief! Let our children regain their self-confidence and let them face their priorities!"

13. "When Mr. Lapierre came to me and asked me to do this job, I saw lightning and I heard thunder, and I felt the grinder breaking my soul, and I couldn't help but kneel. With my legs down, I shouted: My Lord! Why did you abandon me! The Lord said Jiao, you are not good, you are not a hero at all, unless you seize this opportunity and do what you have to do. It doesn't say you have to be polite, it says do what you have to do, you have to make this school a special place, and in this school children's hearts, their souls, and their minds are elevated, Where they can shake off the shadows of the past, where they can grow and blossom, where children's minds can be liberated!"

14. "How many times have I told you, put those down and put more stuff in your head!"

15. "You didn't tell me Mrs. Alice, and you disobeyed your superiors, and you doubted my ability to judge my ability and my intelligence!"

16. "Nobody knows what you're trying to do!" "I like it!"

17. "I thought you niggas didn't like chains!"

18. “We are going through a harsh journey that will turn black people into a perpetual inferior class!”

19. "If you can't graduate without basic skills, what's the use of Mozart?!"

20. "You have to bow your head and you have to apologize! You have to get used to the world as it is! If you value discipline then obey me first, because in fact I am the head of a black man!"

21. "You shouldn't have fired me!" "You're right, but don't make it a habit!"

22. “The only way to succeed is to get everyone involved!”

23. "Everyone's hands up now! Raise it up! You guys who represent %70 of the failing students, but I don't blame them, it's your failure, yours! Yes, how much time do you spend preparing lessons, Do you often leave poor students behind to help them with tutoring after school?! Don't put your hands down, put your hands up! Now you have experienced the failure and humiliation that those students who failed have felt! Facing a world where none of you have prepared them for them Raise their hands, they only have a slight taste of the disappointment of being abandoned on the street. Please raise your hands high and look around, because you have not educated your students well, and your students will be in this posture in the future! If you go It's too late then!"

24. "I want to tell you what some people say about you, how they treat your chances of success, they say you are inferior, and they say you are the descendants of imbecile blacks and Hispanics and whites. Scum, education is a waste to you, you can't learn anything, you have no hope, I'm referring to everyone here! ... Do you understand what I mean? Does everyone understand? We share weal and woe, we live and die, we Fate is forever linked!"

25. “Let their words be a lie!”

26. "Usually always educate children not to go to jail..."

27. "Banana Clark is not going anywhere!"

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Lean on Me quotes

  • [after refusing admittance to the Fire Chief]

    Joe Clark: [to Ms. Levias] You know what he's saying right now? "Black bastard can't throw me out!" You know where he's saying it? Out in the parking lot.

  • Joe Clark: [at an assembly] I want all of you to take a good look at these people on the risers behind me. These people have been here roughly five years, and done absolutely nothing. These people are drug dealers and drug users. They have taken up space. They have disrupted this school. They have harassed your teachers. And they have intimidated you. Well, times are about to change. You will not be bothered in Joe Clark's school. These people are incorrigible. And since none of them could graduate anyway...

    [to those onstage]

    Joe Clark: ... you are all expurgated. You are dismissed! You are out of here, forever. I wish you well! Mr. Wright...

    [after Security Dean William Wright and Eastside's new guards eject all the "problem" kids from school, Clark's audience in the decaying auditorium grows silent]

    Joe Clark: Next time, it may be you. If you do no better than they did, next time it WILL be you. They said this school was dead, like the cemetery it's built on. But we call our Eastside teams "Ghosts", don't we? And what are ghosts? Ghosts are spirits that rise from the dead. I want you to be my ghosts. You are going to lead our resurrection, by defying the expectation that all of us are doomed to failure. My motto is simple: If you do not succeed in life, I don't want you to blame your parents. I don't want you to blame the White Man. I want you to blame yourselves. The responsibility is yours! In two weeks we have a practice exam, and on April 13th we have the Minimum Basic Skills Test itself. That's 110 school days from now. But it's not just about those test scores. If you do not have these basic skills, you will find yourselves locked out. Locked out of that American Dream that you see advertised on TV, and that they tell you is so easy to get. You are here for one reason. One reason only: To learn. To work for what you believe in. The alternative is to waste your time, to fall into the trap of crime and drugs and death. Does everybody understand that? Do all of you understand me? Then welcome to the new Eastside High.

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