English, Our Common Language, Binds Our Diverse

It Is Not True That We Have Only One Life To Live; If We Can Read, We Can Live As Many More Lives And As Many Kinds Of Lives As We Wish.

Few People...have Had Much Training In Listening. The Training Of Most Oververbalized Professional Intellectuals Is In The Opposite Direction. Living In A Competitive Culture, Most Of Us Are Most Of The Time Chiefly Concerned With Getting Our Own Views Across, And We Tend To Find Other People's Speeches A Tedious Interruption Of The Flow Of Our Own Ideas.

Ever Since Man Began To Till The Soil And Learned Not To Eat The Seed Grain But To Plant It And Wait For Harvest, The Postponement Of Gratification Has Been The Basis Of A Higher Standard Of Living And Of Civilization.

English Is The Key To Full Participation In The Opportunities Of American Life.

If You See In Any Given Situation Only What Everybody Else Can See, You Can Be Said To Be So Much A Representative Of Your Culture That You Are A Victim Of It.