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“As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.”

Hard Reality Accepting Honesty Ignorance Willing Intellectual Opposites Intellectual Honesty

Book:Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

Source: Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

“Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.”

Existence Power Ignorance Willing Acknowledge

Book:Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

Source: Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

“The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.”

Thinking Way Persons States Age Reading Half Conditions Ignorance Willing Birth Enlightenment Increase Extraordinary Former Facility Resignation Diffusion

Book:The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.”

Ifs Thinking Men World Problem Ignorance Willing

Author:Tom Watson

“I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.”

Simple Ignorance Willing Comfortable Faults Complexes Cruelty Occasions Privacy Patriotic Devoted Vessel Opinionated Allergic Bad Music

Author:Bernie Taupin