A Quote by Julius Nyerere

Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

Julius Nyerere

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Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian - Politician
April 13, 1922 - October 14, 1999

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

Little Richard

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Jennifer Garner

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

Kathleen Blanco

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

Azim Premji

To me, education is the way out of poverty. And it is the only way.

Sherry Lansing

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

Mildred Dresselhaus

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

Vinod Khosla

The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education.

Julian Castro

Lucio Tan Group has had an historic interest in education. From my days as a struggling working student, I knew that education is the key to escape from the clutches of poverty.

Lucio Tan

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Work is the only way - the only sustainable way - to escape poverty.

Pierre Poilievre

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".

Silvio Berlusconi

City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids.

Octavia Spencer

Poverty will not be allowed to become a wall in the way of education.

Shehbaz Sharif

By the way, although the subtitle of the book "Three Cups of Tea" is "fighting terror, one school at a time", that was not my choice, as fighting terror is not why I do this, I do it to promote peace, and give hope and opportunity to children deprived of education.

Greg Mortenson

I don't believe in different ways of fighting now. I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs, then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way.

Bruce Lee

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