Rainn Wilson Quotes

Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

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.

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

Give education and knowledge to the common people.

Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.

I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.

Education is the antidote to poverty.

There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.

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

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

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

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

I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.

Education ... is the great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery.

You could not let your masters see you read; but now [after Emancipation] the colored people are fond of sending their children to school. Because the children in after years will be able to tell us ignorant ones how to do for ourselves.

When people are educated, class distinction disappears.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.

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

People believe in the power of education to change lives.