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Quotes About Empowerment

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.
~ Joycelyn Elders
My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
~ David Mamet
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
~ Dick Cheney
Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.
~ Scott Turow
I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy.
~ Richard Thaler
I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.
~ Malala Yousafzai
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
~ Walter Lippmann
The best education for the best is the best education for all.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.
~ Jack Kemp
If we are to overcome terrorism and violence, we need education. That is the only way we can win.
~ Sakena Yacoobi
Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
~ Albert Einstein
No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.
~ Nelson Mandela
There is no future without education.
~ Rosa Parks
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
~ Charles B. Rangel
My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.
~ Fiona Wood
Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.
~ Matt Salmon
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
~ Joseph Campbell
Parents do not own their children. They have no 'natural right' to control their education fully.
~ John Goodlad
I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!
~ Erin Gruwell
In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.
~ Arne Duncan
We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.
~ Unknown
The real safeguard of democracy is education.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
~ Thomas Jefferson