I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them. - Medgar Evers

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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

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It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day. - Medgar Evers

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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. ― Joseph Stalin

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We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there. ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.

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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. —Calvin Coolidge

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Education is not the learning of the facts, but the training of the mind to think. - Albert Einstein

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You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea. - Medgar Evers

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