“Education is the mother of leadership.” — Wendell Willkie Quote

Education is the mother of leadership.

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

I had a public school education - 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You'd come in and sign your name and the teacher would just sit there at the head of the class and you would literally just have to stay in your seat for 40 minutes and that was the only thing you'd have to do in class.

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.