We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
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Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.
Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push and educational message.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the houses rain down, this is what scatters armies!
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Racism must be opposed by all means that humanity has at its disposal.
If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
We have more machinery of government that is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
