Henry A. Wallace Quotes

Only a well fed, well housed, well schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

It's hard for people who have never faced hunger or illiteracy to understand how crucial they are to the majority of mankind.

Of what use is political liberty to those who have no bread? It is of value only to ambitious theorists and politicians.

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Education is freedom.

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

Only the educated are free.

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

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

Real freedom means opportunity and well-being. If it does not mean that, it means nothing.

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

Our people need affirmative faith and material security more than they need rights and true science.

People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

I have lived the American dream, and that is the dream I want for our children and all children everywhere.

I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

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

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.