Kenneth Griffin (1968) American hedge fund manager
Video commentary featured on website of the Chicago Public Education Fund http://www.cpef.org/nm_video.htm#
“We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation.”
Address at a meeting of the Berkeley Lyceum, New York, November 23, 1900. Quoted in Mark Twain's Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 146 http://books.google.com/books?id=7etXZ5Q17ngC&pg=PA146 (The speech is titled "Public Education Association" in that book, but also referred to elsewhere as his "I am a Boxer" speech.)
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Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Source: Are you being brainwashed?: Propaganda in science textbooks (2007), p. 27
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)
Context: The time has come for an all-out world war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for "the least of these". Deeply etched in the fiber of our religious tradition is the conviction that men are made in the image of God and that they are souls of infinite metaphysical value, the heirs of a legacy of dignity and worth. If we feel this as a profound moral fact, we cannot be content to see men hungry, to see men victimized with starvation and ill health when we have the means to help them. The wealthy nations must go all out to bridge the gulf between the rich minority and the poor majority.
“A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.”
Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888–1957) Medal of Honor recipient and United States Navy officer
As quoted in Struggle : The Life and Exploits of Commander Richard E. Byrd (1928) by Charles John Vincent Murphy, p. 325
“The Great British Public; a nation of Blue Peter presenters.”
Luke Haines (1967) English musician and songwriter
Liner notes to Christie Malry's Own Double Entry OST, 2001
Christine O'Donnell (1969) American Tea Party politician and former Republican Party candidate
1998-08
Television series
Politically Incorrect
ABC
Politically Incorrect August 1998 Part 1 of 2 Eddie Izzard Christine O'Donnell
YouTube
2009-06-21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFisw16di3w
2010-10-20
Scott
Keyes
O’Donnell So Fervently Pro-Truth That She Wouldn’t Lie To Nazis Asking If She Were Hiding Jews In Her Home
Think Progress
2010-09-15
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/15/odonnell-lie-jews/
2010-10-20
TV appearances
“If we can't be a great nation in population we can be a great nation in spirit!”
Jakob Hurt (1839–1907) Estonian linguist
International Arvo Part Center signed a contract with Swedbank http://www.arvopart.ee/en/Archive-of-News/international-arvo-paert-centre-signed-a-contract-with-swedbank op arvopart.ee, 2010
“The microcosm of a public school.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book I, Chapter 2.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)