The document comprises a collection of powerful quotes from various influential figures emphasizing the transformative power of education, the importance of recognizing and celebrating differences, and the struggles against oppression. It highlights that true education cultivates critical thinking and character, and calls for awareness and action in the face of societal challenges. The overarching theme stresses the interconnectedness of struggles and the necessity of solidarity in achieving justice and understanding.

1. “The function of education is to teach
one to think intensively and to think
critically. Intelligence plus character—
that is the goal of true education.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. “Education is the most
powerful weapon you can use
to change the world.”
Nelson
Mandela

5. “It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.”
Audre Lorde

7. “Education is the passport to the
future, for tomorrow belongs to
those who prepare for it today.”
Malcolm X

9. “Our lives begin to end the day
we become silent about things
that matter.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

11. “I have learned over the years that
when one's mind is made up, this
diminishes fear; knowing what must
be done does away with fear.”
Rosa Parks

13. “If you stop struggling,
then you stop life.”
Huey Newton

15. “Remember that consciousness is power.
Consciousness is education and knowledge.
Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the
perfect vehicle for students.”
Yuri Kochiyama

17. “Despite the hardships that I have
encountered, the most important thing
to realize is that invisibility is not an
acceptable solution to oppression.”
Sylvia Rivera

19. “The most common way people
give up their power is by
thinking they don't have any.”
Alice
Walker

21. “Freedom is never voluntarily
given by the oppressor; it must be
demanded by the oppressed.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

23. “The cost of liberty is less than
the price of repression.”
W. E. B. Du Bois

25. “When a system of oppression has become
institutionalized, it is unnecessary for the
individuals to be oppressive.”
Florynce Kennedy

27. “In the end antiblack, antifemale,
and all forms of discrimination are
equivalent to the same thing -
antihumanism.”
Shirley
Chisholm

29. “There is no such thing as a
single-issue struggle because
we do not live single-issue lives.”
Audre Lorde

31. “Our scientific power has outrun our
spiritual power. We have guided missiles
and misguided men.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

33. “In order to rally people, governments
need enemies. They want us to be
afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind
them. And if they do not have a real
enemy, they will invent one in order to
mobilize us.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

35. “Anyone who has ever struggled
with poverty knows exactly how
expensive it is to be poor.”
James Baldwin

37. “The idea of freedom is inspiring. But
what does it mean? If you are free in a
political sense but have no food, what’s
that? The freedom to starve?”
Angela Davis

39. “We draw our strength from the
very despair in which we have been
forced to live. We shall endure.”
Cesar Chavez

41. “My mother said I must always be
intolerant of ignorance but understanding
of illiteracy. That some people, unable to
go to school, were more intelligent and
more educated than college professors.”
Maya
Angelou

43. Who does not know of literature banned
because it is interrogative; discredited
because it is critical; erased because
alternate?
Toni Morrison

45. “The present moment
contains past and future.
The secret of transformation,
is in the way we handle this very
moment.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

47. “The ultimate test of a man is not where
he stands in moments of comfort and
moments of convenience, but where he
stands in moments of challenge and
moments of controversy.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

49. “I would refuse to go to a homophobic
heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I
would much rather go to the other place.”
Desmond Tutu

51. “Being oppressed means
the absence of choices.”
bell hooks

53. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

55. “We must recognize that the suffering of one
person or one nation is the suffering of
humanity. That the happiness of one person
or nation is the happiness of humanity.”
Dalai Lama

57. “Change is one thing.
Acceptance is another.”
Arundhati Roy

59. “Oriental was a rug that everyone
steps on, so we ain’t no Orientals.
We were Asian American.”
Richard Aoki

61. Sexist language, racist language,
theistic language - all are typical of the
policing languages of mastery, and
cannot, do not permit new knowledge
or encourage the mutual exchange of
ideas.
Toni Morrison

63. “If we aren’t intersectional, some
of us, the most vulnerable, are
going to fall through the cracks.”
Kimberlé
Crenshaw

65. “The future belongs to those who cultivate
cultural sensitivities to differences and who
use these abilities to forge a hybrid
consciousness that transcends the “us” vs.
“them” mentality.”
Gloria Anzaldúa

67. “In the end, we will remember
not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

69. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
DAY OF SERVICE
PRODUCED BY
THE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
CLARK UNIVERSITY
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
COMMITTEE ON DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
COMMITTEE ON CAMPUS CLIMATE
OFFICE OF ACADEMIC ADVANCEMENT