America Quote by Alex Wagner

My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the…

— John W. Rogers, Jr

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

— Kamala Harris

My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was a remarkable…

— Tom Perez

My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the…

— Samuel Alito

My mother was a professor of English and History.

— Sonu Sood

My sister and I graduated from Arizona State University where she was president and I was secretary of the College Republicans.

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.

— Jesmyn Ward

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

— George Stigler

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

— Kamala Harris

When I was a young co-ed at Arizona State University, my sister was the president of the College Republicans. I was her secretary.

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she returned to…

— Stacey Abrams

My mom worked as an education director.

— Josh Gondelman