Education Quote by Henry Charles Carey

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and…

— Rick Santorum

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come…

— Wendell Willkie

Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.

— Zach Braff

“Our Founders explicitly designed our system so that all powers not delegated to the federal government (education included) fell to the states or the…

— Glenn Beck

There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end…

— Bryan Stevenson

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics…

— James Russell Lowell

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in…

— Grace Abbott

What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de…

— Paul Weyrich

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

— Robert Charles Winthrop

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

— Abraham Lincoln