“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”

“This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.”

“A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.”

“My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.”

“I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.”

“In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.”

“Segregation has no place in the education system.”

“To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.”

“Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.”