I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

I need physics more than friends.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

I give the children education.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

We must make it clear that a platform of ‚I hate gay men and women‘ is not a way to become president of the United States.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

Libraries raised me.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.