“I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene”

“Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.”

“No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.”

“I only know there's something unsettling about a door that closes forever. I feel a vague lament about the changing of my body, the alterations in my appearance, the bleeding out of motherhood, the fear that I will not find the mysterious green fuse again.”

“But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.”

“We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”