I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
John D. RockefellerA person’s a person, no matter how small.
Dr. SeussHomophobia is real in this country.
Kamala HarrisWon’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
Maya AngelouI just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.
Greta ThunbergMy mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.
Dolores HuertaA private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
Abraham LincolnI didn’t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.
Angelina JolieBecause I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.
Jimmy CarterTo make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John RuskinI repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin DisraeliStudy hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
Che GuevaraOur diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.
Angelina JolieCommon looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham LincolnIf children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAre 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?
Barack ObamaHad I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.
Richard BransonSo what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
BonoI believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.
Russell M. NelsonMen are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand RussellOur teachers deserve better feedback.
Bill GatesMy 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.
Denzel WashingtonThe business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren BuffettAll, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas JeffersonGod tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.
Dolly PartonI go to school the youth to learn the future.
Robert FrostWe 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.
Benjamin FranklinThere is no scriptural basis for segregation.
Billy GrahamEverything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Mark TwainAuthority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Golda MeirFor me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.
Michelle ObamaAll of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.
Barack ObamaHe who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
PlatoIn almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.
Bill GatesI’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
EminemHealing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
HippocratesThose who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Hosea BallouIt’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.
Kanye WestWhen a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard ShawIt’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.
EminemEducation is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert EinsteinWhen you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.
Kevin HartInjustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H. L. MenckenYou’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.
Harper LeeMy main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
Dalai LamaIn K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.
Bill GatesAll History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Alice WalkerA president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.
Henry KissingerI 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.
Nipsey HussleThe way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.
Kendrick LamarThe task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. LewisThe opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
VoltaireMore businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.
Richard BransonI long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
Maya AngelouWhen I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.
Clint EastwoodAs a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.
Jane GoodallSeeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Benjamin DisraeliEducation commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea BallouI wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.
Michelle ObamaA 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.
Maya Angelou