Campus Quotes

• My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

  Michelle Obama

  White, Trying, Matter

  "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community". Senior thesis, Princeton University, p. 14-15, 1985.

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• For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.

  Tony Dungy

  Football, College, People

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• I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

  John Krasinski

  Teacher, College, One Day

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• College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

  Jerry Kramer

  Sweet, College, Hopeful

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• Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

  John Green

  Stupid, College, Years

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• College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

  Tom Ford

  College, Political, Activity

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• I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

  Tatyana Ali

  College, Roommate, Stills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

  Abraham Robinson

  College, Ideas, California

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• The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Education, Artist, Done

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• The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Radical Feminism, Feminist, Political

  "Feminists On The Warpath Get Their Man". eagleforum.org. February 16, 2005.

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• I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

  Amartya Sen

  Born, University, Seems

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• But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

  Gertrude Stein

  Men, Careers, Problem

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• I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.

  Michael N. Castle

  Wall, College, Remember

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• I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Women, Careers

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.887, Open Road Media

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• In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.

  Vito Fossella

  New York, Fire, Average

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• In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play

  Danny Glover

  Communication, Play, San Francisco

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• I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.

  Alan Dershowitz

  College, Israel, Years

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• As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.

  Vito Fossella

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Travel, Thinking, Order

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• Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

  Rick Ross

  School, Responsibility, Effort

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• Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

  William P. Leahy

  Teaching, Church, May

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• I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

  Cheech Marin

  Cards, Movement, Resistance

  "Back with a bong" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2004.

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• Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.

  Paul Weyrich

  Christian, Religious, College

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• Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Speaks Out, Doe, Refuse

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• I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

  Clark Kerr

  Education, Sex, Learning

  Quoted in Time, 17 Nov. 1958

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