"Equality should be the chief basis of..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.
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“To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.”
“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
“A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.”
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“I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come out with two degrees. Educating ourselves was a way to give ourselves the most powerful weapon for freedom.”
“As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
“We can't teach what we don't know, and we can't lead where we can't go”
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“It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.”
“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”
“Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me”