"Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from……" — Sharon M. Draper

"Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility."

— Sharon M. Draper

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18 Quotes by Sharon M. Draper

Sharon M. Draper has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.
Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or…
She talked to me like I was just like any other student, not a kid in a wheelchair.
It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.
Do not let anyone stop you from succeding
But I'll always love you, and I'll always miss you and I'll never forget that It's okay to put dragons…
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I…
Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.
Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases…
Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that…
One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled…
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

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More Apathy Quotes

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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty… — Charles Baudelaire
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. — William Bernbach
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. — Ruben Blades
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. — Jimmy Buffett
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving… — Leo Buscaglia
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. — Thomas Carlyle
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel… — Noam Chomsky
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. — Winston Churchill
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum… — Hillary Clinton
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people. — Louis D. Brandeis
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in… — Winston Churchill

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