Confucius Quotes

I believe that the way to justice is education.

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

I believe education is the great equalizer.

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.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.

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.

I want to tell the children of Kashmir that they should read, write, and learn and come to the mainstream.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

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

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.

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

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

Here in America, we have labored long and hard to achieve a social order worthy of our great heritage. In our time, tremendous progress has been made toward a really democratic way of life. Let me assure the forward-looking people of America that there will be no relaxation in our efforts to improve the lot of the common people.

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.

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

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.

America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and opportunity to all citizens, no matter how humble their background, so they could climb higher, help build the American dream, and leave a better life for those who follow.

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.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

Education is freedom.