I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. – George Herbert Palmer

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. – Henry S. Haskins

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. – James Weldon Johnson