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"I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work."
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"Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person."
People
"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."
Education
"I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work."
Education
"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."
Education
"I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years."
Politics
"But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well."
Time
"I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year."
Time
"Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service."
Justice
"Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action."
Time
"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."
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"Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character."
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Personal Development
"A nation that does not provide a proper education for women is destroying their nation."
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Personal Development
"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."
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Personal Development
"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
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Personal Development
"After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body."
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Personal Development
"Experience is a sacred education."
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Personal Development
"It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation for unconventional teaching methods. For midterms he had blindfolded us, then had us each stick a pin in a map of the world and we got to write essays on wherever the pin stuck. I got Decatur, Illinois. Some of the guys complained because they drew places like Ulan Bator or Zimbabwe. They were lucky. YOU try writing ten thousand words on Decatur, Illinois."
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Personal Development
"Getting an early education and then continuing it throughout life is a brilliant way to achieve success and live a purposeful life."
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Personal Development
"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive."
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Personal Development
"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."
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