Shiv Nadar Quotes

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.

You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.

I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

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

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

Give education and knowledge to the common people.

I believe that the way to justice is education.

Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.

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.

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

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

Stronger than all the armies is the idea whose time has come. The time has come for equality in sharing in government and education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here.

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.

I am committed to leveling the playing field and expanding opportunity to all.

People believe in the power of education to change lives.

There is nothing more important to improve humanity than education.

We must stop looking to the past and focus on ensuring everyone has a stake in the future.

Three components - education, equality and empowerment - play an important and pivotal role in moving the country forward in every aspect.

I'm hoping to see some minorities in executive offices in positions of power, people who see the merit of projects with minority themes. That may or may not happen.

Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded.

I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.

Being the only African American at this level in American Ballet Theater, I feel like people are looking at me, and it's my responsibility for me to do whatever I can to provide these opportunities in communities to be able to educate them.