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Alphonso Jackson

"Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer."

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"Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer."

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"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."

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"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."

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"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."

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"Study the past if you would define the future."

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"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

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"If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought."

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"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."

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"While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils."

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"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."

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"As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent."
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"They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America."
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"So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing."
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"You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand."
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"One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home."
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"The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education."
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"We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing the problem that we set out to do."
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"And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility."
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"I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working."
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"The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it."
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