Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
It’s possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we’ll make it.
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
Wisdom , penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement , leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, , mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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