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Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me – drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality. – Johann Lamont

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Ive got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks its what children bring into school with them. – Johann Lamont

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Education
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Johann Lamont
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Ive taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything. – Johann Lamont

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Christmas
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Johann Lamont
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The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. Its equality of opportunity. Theres a fundamental difference. – Robert Reich

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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. – Abraham Lincoln

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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. – Theodore Bikel

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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. – Karl Kraus

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A lot of people think, Ill give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesnt work out Ill go get a law degree, do something else thats more practical. For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. – Brit Marling

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. – Francis Bacon

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Habit is a great deadener. – Samuel Beckett

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