Education Quotes
“Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.”
“In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.”
-- Marlo Thomas
“True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.”
-- Philip Pullman
“Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.”
-- Jonathan Kozol
“If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.”
-- Patrick J. Kennedy
“Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.”
-- Bobby Vinton
“I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.”
-- Susana Martinez
“I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.”
-- Joichi Ito