Student Advocacy Quotes

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

When we worked with the organization that represents students, they were unequivocal: They want debt-free college. And for many of those students, that has to include the total cost of attendance.

I was an officer in my student council.

It's time to start putting actually the students first and not anyone else.

Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.

In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

I'll continue to fight for our schools.

I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

The list of gifted teachers and librarians who find their jobs in jeopardy for defending their students' right to read, to imagine, to question, grows every year.

Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board.

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

We certainly hope that Secretary DeVos will work on behalf of every student and ensure equal access to a safe and quality education for LGBTQ young people.

Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.

Special education is nothing but holding cells for children on the way to the penitentiary.

I'm just blessed, man, to be able to represent solidarity with the small schools I went to.

Get rid of Betsy DeVos.

The Time's Up movement extends to every college campus and, of course, athletics.

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the problems that shape our students' lives.

When I was in the 10th grade, I decided to run for a position on the student council with the campaign slogan 'Nuthin but a Boz thang,' so you might say joining Beats Music is like coming full circle.