Charles B. Rangel Quotes

When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.

Education is the antidote to poverty.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.

Education is the complete answer to all these other social issues.

Give education and knowledge to the common people.

Freedmen have the natural thirst for knowledge, aspire to power and influence… coupled with learning, and are excited by the special study of books.

People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.

As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

Education is freedom.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

In the underdeveloped countries, we have young men and women, many of them of capacity but without opportunity to improve themselves. They cannot do so without help.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.