"It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two."

History, People, Women, Civilrights

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"It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two."

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"Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do."

Family, Children, Classroom, World

"Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities."

Technology, Help, Poor, Tools

"Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated."

Education, Ability, Excitement, Productivity

"It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two."

History, People, Women, Civilrights

"Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion."

Time, Virtue, Compassion, Competition

"We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom."

Work, People, Classroom, Order

"I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years."

Technology, Concern, Effort, Nation

"The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting."

Legislation, First

"There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking."

People, Running, Security, Thinking

"We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere."

Technology, Quality, Classroom

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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

History, Books, Knowledge, Order, Learning

"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Goodness

"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it."

Rasheed Ogunlaru, British Motivational Speaker

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