Accepting Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is the virtue that liberate man from mental slavery

— Shaquille Tomlinson

“Without education … what is man but a splendid slave, a reasoning savage vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from God and…

— Chukwudifu Oputa

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Two hundred years ago when slavery was going on it was illegal to educate a slave, particularly to teach them to read. Why do…

— Ben Carson

“Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to…

— Ryū Murakami

“You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Slaves have to obey their masters.

— Bill Bright

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they…

— Tom Shadyac

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown…

— Wynton Marsalis

“Every adult parent, however lowly or powerless, had at least some one that he could command, threaten, and punish. No man was so poor,…

— John Holt