"Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment."
― Barbara Jordan
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Education
― Barbara Jordan
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- "What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise."
- "Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."
- "A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation."
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- "Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don’t always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history."― Caroline Kennedy
- "If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?"― Virginia Woolf
- "I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated."― Spike Lee