Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.”
“The time has come
to loose the burden
to clear the stigma, the sign
from my poor heart”
“It is education that has altered my life. Carried me far.”
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)
Source: Autobiography (1873)
https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/35/mode/1up p. 35
As quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison, p. 75
Context: It is not possible for me to bear alone such labours and the burden of such weighty cares as press on me from hour to hour, without one man at my side to help me. I have not a soul to aid me in all my anxieties and toils.
“My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.”
My Autobiography (1964)
Context: Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.
Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities — a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.
“The educator has the duty of not being neutral.”
Source: We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
