Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

My wife and I have been passionate about education being a gateway for upward mobility and equality.

There is desperate education inequality in America, and I think every kid deserves a good teacher and a good school regardless of the ZIP code that he or she lives in.

Segregation has no place in the education system.

Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.

We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

A memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer the to the higher.

That there be equal educational opportunities for all and in all the States, and that public school expenditure be the same for Negro and white child.

Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn’t be limited to the wealthiest few.

What I see is democratizing education will change everything.

Equality in education is my number one battle.

We've got to have good schools in every zip code.

The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!

I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.