"We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around."
-Ryan White
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"Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.“
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"I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere."
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"AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself."
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"Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M."
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"Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees."
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"Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me."
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"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."
-Richard Cobden
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"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."
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"I studied secondary education."
-Jim McKay
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"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."
-Kent McCord
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"I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education."
-Alonzo Mourning
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
-Sidney Blumenthal
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