Charles Horsky Quotes

You can't fight for your rights if you don't know what they are.

I never knew I had so many rights.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

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

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

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

To use their human rights, people have to know about them.

Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.

I'm not saying that people should believe in a specific thing or a specific way, but if everyone has the knowledge they need to have, then they can make their own decisions. That's the key thing: to have the information.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

If people are educated, they will know what they need.

The more we educate folks, the more it will help them make informed policy decisions.

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

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

Knowledge always liberates.

Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got acclaims. It has nothing to do with education whatsoever.

I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up.

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.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.