Educational Fairness Quotes

If you read the Freedom Charter carefully, you will find that - the clause that refers to education, and it says education must be free 'on merit.'

We should celebrate the fact that, unlike some countries in the world, the United States makes promises that we will never send any student away from our schools.

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

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

Equality in education is my number one battle.

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

I think all of us have really got to redouble our efforts, first of all, to pay attention to the K-12 crisis. The sad fact is that I can look at your zip code and tell whether you're going to get a good education. That's not fair. And secondly, I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

The SAT allows less-privileged students access to universities that previously were the bastions of the wealthy.

Education is important. And the difference of the zip code you grow up in or the zip code you are born in and how you turn out really isn't fair to the kids of our world.

We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education.