Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Segregation has no place in the education system.

Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

In America we believe that every child, no matter where they live, who their family is, or what the color of their skin, is entitled to as good an education as the richest parent in America can give to their children.

There shall be a system of common schools ... to be open without charge to all classes of persons

Public education is the great equalizer of America.

Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn’t be limited to the wealthiest few.

I don't think a good education should be confined to a privileged few.

Equality in education is my number one battle.

There are no immovable barriers to education.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.

Education is the most powerful tool for everything but certainly to create opportunities for yourself, and I know that not everyone has the privilege of an education like here in America.

Democracy is essential for equality. Thank God, Indian democracy is still working. That is because every Indian is essentially a thinker. Thinking is not limited to the elite.