“I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being”

—  LeVar Burton

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being" by LeVar Burton?
LeVar Burton photo
LeVar Burton 3
actor, director 1957

Related quotes

Yehudi Menuhin photo

“I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.”

Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) American violinist and conductor

Quoted in: Dream It. List It. Do It!: How to Live a Bigger & Bolder Life, from the Life List Experts at 43Things.com http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_PBV0WJr9vsC&pg=PA98, Workman Publishing, 25 December 2008, p. 98

Statius photo

“All soil is human birthright.”
Omne homini natale solum.

Statius book Thebaid

Variant translation: The whole world is a man's birthplace.
Source: Thebaid, Book VIII, Line 320 (tr. J. H. Mozley)

“Nature is part our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness and integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.”

Henry Beston (1888–1968) American writer

Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Andrew Fraknoi photo

“I believe that an understanding of our place in the wider universe and the methods of science are part of the birthright of everyone living on our planet.”

Andrew Fraknoi (1948) astronomer

[Former ASP Executive Director Andrew Fraknoi Named 2007 California Professor of the Year, https://www.astrosociety.org/news/fraknoi.html, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 18 January 2018]

John Waters photo

“Parents should worry if their children haven't been arrested by the time they turn sixteen. Being a juvenile delinquent is a birthright and as much a part of healthy adolescence as smoking cigarettes or getting pimples.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

Meher Baba photo

“It is never presumptuous for anyone to hope for realization. It is the goal of creation and the birthright of humanity.”

Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic

Message to Garrett Fort (1936) <!-- Tr p194, also A p26 -->
General sources
Context: It is never presumptuous for anyone to hope for realization. It is the goal of creation and the birthright of humanity. Blessed are they who are prepared to assert that right in this very life.

Immanuel Kant photo

“Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity”

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher

Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Ethics by Immanuel Kant, trans. J.W. Semple, ed. with Iintroduction by Rev. Henry Calderwood (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1886) (3rd edition). Chapter: GENERAL DIVISION OF JURISPRUDENCE. http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1443&chapter=56215&layout=html&Itemid=27
Context: Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.

Bruce Lee photo

“Neither. I think of myself as a human being.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 87, when asked if he thought of himself as Chinese or American

Related topics