Accused Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for…

— Josh Billings

“You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and…

— Margaret Mitchell

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education…

— Samuel Johnson

“we're a "lower order of people" in one breath we are damned for being "unassailable" and the next there is fear that we'll assimilate.…

— Joy Kogawa

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he…

— Carter G. Woodson

[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone…

— Frantz Fanon

When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say…

— Frantz Fanon

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

— Michel de Montaigne

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

— C. S. Lewis

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

— Marcus Aurelius

“The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even…

— H. L. Mencken