Political Education Quotes

• Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

  Henry Adams

  Political, Beginnings And Ends, Human Nature

  Henry Adams (2013). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.165, e-artnow

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• Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

  Thomas Sankara

  Patriotic, Political, Soldier

  Thomas Sankara (2007). “We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Press

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• If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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  If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  Abigail Adams

  Women, Memorable, Equality

  Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

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• [Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Real, Hero, School

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• In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abortions. At times it will require political education and legal fights, at times it will require education and the establishment of alternatives to abortion, such as adoption centers. Unfortunately, such measures are sometimes opposed by so-called hard-liners in the pro-life movement. These hard-liners are fools. Because they want to outlaw all abortions, they refuse to settle for stopping some abortions; the consequence is that they end up preventing no abortions.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Fighting, Views, Numbers

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• Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.

  Peter Hain

  Party, Organization, People

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• And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

  Wavy Gravy

  Political, Needs, Looks

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• Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

  Roland Joffe

  Wrestling, Cities, Joy

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