It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.
Interpretation
Education is essential for personal and financial success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of learning and gaining knowledge as a foundation for achieving success and prosperity. Unlike the fleeting nature of chaos and destruction, the act of learning is portrayed as a crucial undertaking that leads to lasting rewards and fulfillment in life.
In practice
In a graduation speech to inspire students.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
The man who never reads lives only one.
I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.
I sat down in 1989 and I made up my mind at that point that I was going to spend the rest of my life assisting women and youth to gain social and political empowerment through business and education. I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.
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