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We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it. -- Adam Braun
A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. -- Nicholas Kristof
The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries. -- Muhammad Yunus
Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account. -- Dave Obey
Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes. -- Adora Svitak
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues? -- Adam Braun
We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them. -- Erica Jong
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want. -- Hillary Clinton
More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote. -- Michelle Alexander
Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom. -- Anita Roddick
As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education. -- Jesse Jackson
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood. -- Janet Napolitano
In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love. -- Lauryn Hill
As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education. -- Gwen Moore
From China and India to Turkey and Brazil, when women have gotten access to education, to family planning and to a vital place in the economy, greater prosperity has followed. And when women are free to speak and learn, they temper the extremes of ideology and fanaticism and raise sons who are less likely to become human bombs. -- David Horsey
Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody. -- Paul Farmer
Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access. -- David Filo
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. -- Kent Conrad
Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. -- Muhammad Yunus
When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people. -- James L. Farmer, Jr.
It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education. -- Barack Obama
President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education. -- George Miller
In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy. -- Mike Rogers
Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry. -- Scott Turow
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students. -- Ron Lewis
Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no. -- Lincoln Chafee
Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student. -- Sebastian Thrun
Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education! -- Roger Moore
A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities. -- Anant Agarwal
Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed. -- Daphne Koller
access to effective education for each woman. -- lity munshi
With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation. -- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education -- John Legend
If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education. -- Julius Genachowski
I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning. -- Ken Wyatt
It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education. -- Nelson Mandela
Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn. -- Lowell Milken
All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well. -- Peter Diamandis
The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century. -- Jack Kemp
The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on. -- Jose Ramos-Horta

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