Miles Davis Quotes

There is no slavery but ignorance.

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

Freedom can occur only through education.

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

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

The school house will rise to enlighten the darkened intellect of a race imbruted by long years of enforced ignorance.

My people are gone into captivity for want of knowledge.

Her light shall pierce through the darkness of ignorance and man’s oppression.

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

Knowledge always liberates.

They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson...? The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it.... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free.

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Education is freedom.