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


Alphonso Jackson

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I believe education is the great equalizer.
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The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.
GEORGE EASTMAN
Sex is the great equalizer.
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During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands ...
JONATHAN KOZOL
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions ...
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Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions...
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Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions o...
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Progress depends on the unreasonable man.
JULIAN GUTHRIE
A great education is the key to the state's future and prosperity. We're making good progress, but w...
MARK USDANE
The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, mag...
RANDI WEINGARTEN
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to b...
BILL GATES
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions ...
HORACE MANN
Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good job...
DONALD TRUMP
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our futur...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
Size is definitely overrated. Speed is the great equalizer.
GENE CHIZIK
The individual progress also depends on mutual aid.
DANIEL MELGAçO
I believe education is the great equalizer. Our children are our hope for the future, so we have an ...
DAVE HEINEMAN
The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.
ELON MUSK
Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.
H. L. MENCKEN
Time is the great equalizer; it ultimately debases all organization.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
ANN LANDERS
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where ric...
JEFF GREENE
These are good schools, you can get a good education here.
ANN MARSHALL
I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go ...
JIMMY SMITS
Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American ...
BOB TAFT
We will use Norway's great opportunities and income on the common good -- jobs for all, good schools...
JENS STOLTENBERG
The last derby raised $20,000 for the Andrew Jackson Council, and we're hoping for a good showing ag...
MARK ADAMS
Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
MAJOR OWENS
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are bl...
MARILYN FRENCH
Because they've been here and know other wrestlers and schools, sometimes it can be a lot to handle....
BRIAN SMITH
SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not ...
WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN
Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.
CHRISTOPHER HEYERDAHL
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is e...
GEORGE SAVILE
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is e...
HENRY S. COMMAGER
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is e...
HENRY STEELE COMMAGER
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness ...
GASTON CAPERTON
Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones.
ANDREW LO
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the ...
RICHARD COBDEN
White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black ...
STEVE ERICKSON
To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have goo...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Our goal is to say that, as additional pots of money come along, charter schools are seen as legitim...
JACKIE WILLIAMS
The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.
JAMI GERTZ
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at las...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by...
THOMAS SOWELL
Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.
AUDREY MACLEAN
Personal trials are the great equalizer that continues to draw public fascination.
ALANA STEWART
Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --th...
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Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adeq...
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This initiative holds great promise for expanding the use of online education for students and educa...
JAMEY FITZPATRICK
Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD
On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.
KENNETH PACHEN
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at las...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the p...
ERIN GRUWELL
Talent is a by-product of education; the quality of a country's human capital depends on it.
KLAUS SCHWAB
More opportunity now, because you don't have to get federal approval. I graduated from Lafayette Hig...
GARY MCGOFFIN
Mountains are like the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who anyone is or what they do.
JIMMY CHIN
I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason ...
CHUCK SCHUMER
It concerns me when our schools are making significant progress from year to year, and yet are ident...
JANE BURKE
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or v...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or v...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
This is good for the schools because Florida and Georgia schools don't usually play Mississippi scho...
KATHLEEN THOMPSON
We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what...
DAMIAN WOETZEL
Tiffany Jackson is a great, great player but if you would have said in the last 10 minutes who was t...
BILL FENNELLY
After graduation I plan on substituting in Jackson Township schools as an elementary school teacher....
MELISSA ALLEN
This proposal is unfair because the entire requirement is placed on the taxpayers of Jackson County.
CRAIG DAVIS
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
JOSEF STALIN
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
JOSEPH STALIN
The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often ...
ELI BROAD
School appropriates the money, men, and good will available for education and in addition discourage...
IVAN ILLICH
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the sta...
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR
The grocery store is the great equalizer where mankind comes to grips with the facts of life like to...
JOSEPH GOLDBERG
When I came here, Texas had the greatest facility in the world at the time. What also attracted me t...
EDDIE REESE
At this level of gymnastics, anything can happen because everybody is so good that it just depends o...
EMILY PEACOCK
The good part about having a mental disorder is having a valid reason for all the stupid things we d...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Annabeth frowned. "That doesn't make sense. But why were you visiting --" Her eyes widened. "Hermes ...
RICK RIORDAN
It's kind of a black eye, ... because in this league you're only as good as your last punt. So I'm r...
DERRICK FROST
It seems like a bald-faced lie. The whole point of the initiative is to prevent the part of the budg...
GARY JACOBSON
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean ...
REGGIE JACKSON
assimilation that black Americans have been rejecting for the past 380 years.
AUGUST WILSON
Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because t...
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College education is the great Filipino dream. But in a world of rapid technological change, getting...
GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO
This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true...
HERMAN CAIN
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuse...
LUDWIG VON MISES
It just depends how he responds to it for when we progress. We're heading in the right direction.
AARON NELSON
The home crowd is the great equalizer. We were in control early, but had to fight through their team...
CRAIG MANNING
It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority fo...
MEL MARTINEZ
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homewo...
BILL COSBY
What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it -- as if the cau...
BILL MOYERS
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the demo...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even t...
RICHARD ATTIAS
It is the education and awareness for the need for children and people to be physically active. It i...
DAVID FULLWOOD
That is what Americans do. We face a challenge -- no matter how great -- because we know that on the...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY
I understand [Schwarzenegger] met with education coalition. As part of the education community we ar...
BILL LOOSE
For the most part, Mr. Reese is making good progress, ... but not on the agreed upon timeline.
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Americans are up to their eyeballs in debt. The schools raise tuition each year, the loan totals go ...
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One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.
JACKIE JACKSON
I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
JACKIE JACKSON
I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all...
JACKIE JACKSON
I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
JACKIE JACKSON
Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him ...
JACKIE JACKSON
My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
JACKIE JACKSON
What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That ...
IAN JACKSON
I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do i...
IAN JACKSON
I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going t...
IAN JACKSON
If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certa...
IAN JACKSON
I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general ...
IAN JACKSON
We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you...
IAN JACKSON
I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about...
PHIL JACKSON
A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportu...
JANET JACKSON
I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
STONEWALL JACKSON
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be...
JACKSON POLLOCK
I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
MICHAEL JACKSON
Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.
CURTIS JACKSON
Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we ...
CURTIS JACKSON
Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa...
PARIS JACKSON
I want to have a normal high-school experience.
PARIS JACKSON
I do have a regular childhood.
PARIS JACKSON
A lot of people don't like me.
PARIS JACKSON
I listen to older music like AC/DC.
PARIS JACKSON
My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't...
PARIS JACKSON
I want to be my own person.
PARIS JACKSON
I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now - why my dad would want our face ...
PARIS JACKSON
I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.
PARIS JACKSON