Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton Quotes

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

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

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

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

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

I always tell my students: I don't care which side you're on. I respect you too much to try to persuade you in 120 minutes a week, much less lure you into pretending that you agree with me. All I want is for you to own this democracy, to see yours, to have a stake in it.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

Education is not just another consumer item. It is the bedrock of our democracy.

We cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government, for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

Education, then, as universally diffused as the elements of God, is the life-blood of our body politic. The intelligence of the people is the one great fact of our civilization and our prosperity, — it is the beating heart of our age and of our land. It is education alone which makes equality possible without anarchy, and liberty without license.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

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

Questioning is the great strength of democracy; the ability to doubt without losing face

O people of America. The destinies of your country are in your own hands. They are committed to your own keeping. It is for you to say which ye will have, liberty or slavery, knowledge or ignorance, happiness or misery.

Give education and knowledge to the common people.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one — but no one at all — can tell you what to read and when and how.

It is necessary that all our people be instructed, as universal education is the main pillar that must eventually support the temple of liberty.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district ... are the principle support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.

A democracy depends on its people, the literate and the well read.

Education is important even beyond the bounds of the opportunities it gives to the individual; it is a crucial and basic requirement for ensuring effective democracy and human rights.