Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

People believe in the power of education to change lives.

I've seen firsthand how books can change people's lives. It happened to me.

Education is freedom.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

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

Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.

Freedmen have the natural thirst for knowledge, aspire to power and influence… coupled with learning, and are excited by the special study of books.

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

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

We want to change lives.

If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Change is definitely every day. It's an ever-changing world. Everything changes, so I really don't know. I just hope I become a better person, a better man.

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