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Quote by Maya Angelou
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but unders

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. – Maya Angelou

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For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. – Maya Angelou

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I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. – Maya Angelou

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Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated. – Frederick William Robertson

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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. – Henry David Thoreau

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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. – Jean Giraudoux

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The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between mens and womens earnings for the same work. – Sandra Day OConnor

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