Civil rights activist and scholar.
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls.”
“Education must not simply teach work—it must teach life.”
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”
“There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.”
