Bryant H. McGill Quotes

Only the educated are free.

Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty.

Freedom can occur only through education.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

Education is freedom.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; …

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

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

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

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

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Education liberates a woman.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.