“I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education is the fact that it's a very hard thing to do for a first-generation schoolgoer. Because not to have parents at home who can help you, motivate you, is a problem even when the parents are in the abstract very keen on children being educated.”
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Hopeful Quotes — page 181 of 783
“Democracy is a universal value”
“Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.”
“The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.”
“The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.”
“The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.”
“Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.”
“When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.”
“We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.”
“The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.”
“Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”
“The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.”
“I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .”
“Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.”
“Gatewood Galbraith was a good friend, and a tireless advocate for the repeal of the ridiculous ban on hemp & marijuana. His book ‘The Last Free Man Standing’ says it all.”
“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.”
“I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'”
“No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.”
“Trouble that is easily recognized is half-cured.”
“We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.”