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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I… — Lucille Clifton
Racism cannot be separated from capitalism. — Angela Davis
The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free way within the… — John Dewey
It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their… — Isak Dinesen
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed. — Frederick Douglass
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of… — Thomas A. Edison
Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being… — Frantz Fanon
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men… — William Faulkner
We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far… — Betty Friedan
Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. — James Gibbons
What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy… — Dick Gregory
So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from… — Edith Hamilton
In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God… — Carter Heyward
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is… — Zora Neale Hurston
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings. — Robert M. Hutchins
Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they… — Chief Joseph
We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed. — Thomas a Kempis
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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