Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

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

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

I like school and I like learning.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

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

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

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’m not a fortune-teller.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

We have an idea that we Americans are God’s chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God’s blessed. I tell you that God doesn’t love us any more than He does the Russians.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

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

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

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.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Hope is a waking dream.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.