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I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be a requirement in… — Gerald R. Ford
For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools. — Lyndon B. Johnson
What a tremendous act of generosity on the part of the donors who made this possible and what a tremendous opportunity for all these children… — Jennifer Granholm
All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay… — Evan Davis
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools. — Jim DeMint
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time… — Jonathan Kozol
The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an… — Wynton Marsalis
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… — Russell Means
I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me. — Charles Schumer
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall. — Charles Schumer
If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools,… — Will Self
I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section… — Joseph Stiglitz
In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from… — Jack Steinberger
Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. — Elizabeth Warren
Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can… — Thomas Friedman
In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true,… — Boyd K. Packer
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of… — W. E. B. Du Bois
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind… — Thomas A. Edison
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal. — Garrison Keillor
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection,… — Frederic Bastiat
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery… — Mary Griffith
I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed… — Isadora Duncan
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. — Henry Fielding
Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass… — Dennis Kucinich

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