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Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining. – Desmond Tutu

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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said Let us pray. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. – Desmond Tutu

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Religion
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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. – Desmond Tutu

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God
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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. – Desmond Tutu

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Hope
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What makes me angry? The education of children. How in Gods name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids? – Kathleen Turner

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Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. – Clifford Stoll

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Education

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. – John Ruskin

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I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning. – Arthur Hailey

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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. – Tennessee Williams

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You can be young without money but you cant be old without it. – Tennessee Williams

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