Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it’s going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we’ve made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That’s why we did it.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who’s spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

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.

The future will be better tomorrow.

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

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

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.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.