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?

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.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

I was a proponent of the ERA.

I want people to draw strength from me.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can’t do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can’t get, because… you know… I don’t have the tattoos; I have a different image.

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.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

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.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

He who is brave is free.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

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

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.