In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status…

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to…

— Janet Napolitano

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

— Nicholas Kristof

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of…

— Noam Chomsky

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've…

— Hillary Clinton

“Adolescence is a period of life when the brain is malleable, and it represents a good opportunity for learning and social development. However, according…

— John Brockman

With broadband access, we can revolutionize global access to education, health care, economic empowerment, and the delivery of critical human needs.

— Tae Yoo

In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access.…

— Lauryn Hill

Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right to serve…

— Michelle Alexander

As the photographer, it's challenging to make images that read quickly and are powerful, but have enough humanity and compassion. I've worked on these…

— Stephanie Sinclair

“Demographic transition is associated with an increase in the quality of health care and sanitation as well as improved access to education, especially for…

— Jane B. Reece

As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down…

— Gwen Moore

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access…

— Adora Svitak

We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access…

— Erica Jong

Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay,…

— Anita Roddick

Once labeled a felon, you are ushered into a parallel social universe. You can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries,…

— Michelle Alexander