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Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. -- Angelina Grimke
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do. -- Wynton Marsalis
Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education. -- Rod Blagojevich
My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege. -- Ezra Koenig
I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege. -- Daphne Koller
If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing. -- John Hope
I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?' -- Erin Gruwell
I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Africa. -- George Weah
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of institutions that are the envy of the civilized world. Once they were the province, both among the student and faculty bodies, of children of privilege, generally WASPs. -- Rick Perlstein
When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me. -- Naomie Harris
Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country. -- Winston Churchill
Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education. -- Bernie Sanders
As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study. -- Che Guevara
Education is not a privilege, it is a right! -- William J. Clinton
It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world. -- Norman Cousins

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