“What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.” – John Dewey
“Save the children, save mankind.” – Aaron B. Powell
“The real safeguard of democracy is education.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Education and justice are democracy’s only life insurance.” – Nannie Helen Burroughs
“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” – Malala Yousafzai
“When the world shifts its focus on heart over mind, we will finally experience a beautiful global garden for our children.” – Suzy Kassem
“Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.” – Paul Wellstone
“Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.” – Alice Waters
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” – Isaac Asimov
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.” – John Dewey
“We are the world, we are the children We are the ones who’ll make a brighter day so let's start giving There's a choice we’re making, we’re saving our own lives It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me.” – Michael Jackson