Michelle Obama Quotes

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.

While the overall goal of any society must be to educate all its members, at this stage in human history the greatest need is to educate women and girls. For over twenty years, studies have consistently documented that, of all possible investments, educating women and girls pays the highest overall dividends in terms of social development, the eradication of poverty and the advancement of community.

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you will probably view it with suspicion, as I once did. It's this: educating girls works. Really works.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.

Women in the Islamic world are the hope of the whole planet.

Kids may only be 25 percent of our population but they are 100 percent of our future.

I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

Give the girls a chance.

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

It scares the Church hierarchy to have educated women form thoughtful opinions and engage in dialogue.

Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision makers.

… in the quality and range of women’s higher education, retrograde Tsarist Russia had no peer in Europe, and was second only to the U. S. A. Russian wives could own property, while in ‘advanced’ Victorian Britain, they were entirely propertyless…. The University of Calcutta gave degrees to women in 1883, decades before Oxford and Cambridge.

My journey in the military solidified my tireless commitment to making sure girls and women are given the opportunity to meet their full potential, and nobody tells them they can't do something because they're a girl.

Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.

I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.