“I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.” WayMadeBookTodayLyingLanguageBehindsEducationPovertyKnowledgeFieldsCollegeSpeechExperienceCopiesSpeakersYardsGrammarSplendorMasonryTilesQuarry Book:Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.” PovertyKnowledgeEducationalInspirational RunningEnding PovertyLack Of Knowledge Author:Russell Simmons
“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.” KnowsMenLittlesAgeLyingCultureBlackPoorPovertyKnowledgeDiversityTragedySocial JusticeIgnorantWickedBlack History Author:W. E. B. Du Bois