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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James Baldwin

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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. – James Baldwin

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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. – John Locke

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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. – Will Rogers

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This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. – Carter G. Woodson

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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. – Aristotle

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