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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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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou

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If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude. Dont complain. – Maya Angelou

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Until we get equality in education, we wont have an equal society. – Sonia Sotomayor

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I was delighted to not go to university. I couldnt wait to be out of education. – Tom Stoppard

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May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. – Joseph Lancaster

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Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. – Pearl S. Buck

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