"Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for five thousand years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental." W.E.B. Dubois (1949)

"To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business; to enable him to calculate for himself, and to express and preserve his ideas, his contracts and accounts in writing; to improve, by reading, his morals and faculties; to understand his duties to his neighbors and country, and to discharge with competence the functions confided to him by either; to know his rights; to exercise with order and justice those he retains, to choose with discretion the fiduciary of those he delegates; and to notice their conduct with diligence, with candor and judgment; and in general to observe with intelligence and faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed." Thomas Jefferson, University of Virginia (1818)

"There are no rights without responsibilities. With education comes great responsibility. Education is the great equalizer for the less fortunate, the underprivileged, and the underrepresented. The wisdom gained from divinely inspired beliefs that govern the moral fiber of the universe, the proper discernment between right and wrong; between good and evil must include the rights and responsibilities of good citizens of God and their country.” Rev Michael Hopwood, Mt. Tabor Church  (2009)