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" He who opens a school door, closes a prison. "

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" I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart. "

" A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. "

" Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. "

Mary Wollstonecraft

" Like education, healthcare also needs to be given importance. "

" Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. "

" Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' education. "

" I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life. "

" The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. "

" When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. "

" Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted. "

" Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. "

" We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare. "

" Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. "

" I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. "

" So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible. "

" Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure. "

Geoffrey Canada

" American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education. "

" I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration. "

Michelle Alexander

" What people want is their basic needs. So I'm trying to help people ensure their basic need: that means food security, healthcare, education, and job opportunity and a better life. "

" The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. "

" Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems. "

" To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. "

" All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education. "

" The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, I understand the importance access to high quality education plays in preparing our children to learn and compete in a competitive, global workforce. "

" Genius: the superhuman in man. "

" You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison. "

" Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class. "

Thomas E. Perez

" Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It's the federal government and the Justice Department. It's a fraud; it's a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it. "

" I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future. "

Wilma Mankiller