If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

I came up from a difficult background.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

It is right to give every man his due.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

I was raised to be independent.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.