The Madison Center for Educational Affairs is a non-profit public policy organization that is the result of a 1990 merger between the Institute For Educational Affairs and the Madison Center.
The Institute For Education Affairs was founded in 1978 by William Simon and Irving Kristol. Philanthropy Roundtable was originally a project coordinated by the Institute For Education Affairs. William Bennett, Allan Bloom, and Harvey Mansfield founded the Madison Center in 1988.
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“The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“I don’t think America’s the center of the world anymore. I think African women will lead the way [in] ... women’s liberation ... The African woman, she’s got a country, she’s got the flag, she’s got her own army, got the navy. She doesn’t have a racism problem. She’s not afraid that if she speaks up, her man will say goodbye to her.”
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