The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

I was really lucky because I went to an all-girl school, and that single-sex education really helped me because I really learned to bond with women and to not compete with or compare myself as much because we were all allowed to be ourselves and be unique and kind of have our unique strengths.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

aren't lazy or unwilling to work: they just don't know how to free themselves from the welfare security blanket.

The little I knew about my own self wouldn't have filled a thimble!... But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. And for keeping alive in me somehow the desire to know.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.