Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

— Ezra Pound

“Illiteracy is simply the inability to read and write.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of…

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

“But Christian illiteracy is only the first part of the crisis. Even more seriously, even for those who think they speak “Christian” fluently, the…

— Marcus J. Borg

Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the…

— Angela Davis

Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.

— Mary McCarthy

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

— Edwin Louis Cole

People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris…

— Frosty Wooldridge

“Any philosopher, any international economist may talk to me about the methods I have introduced and the thoughts behind them. Illiteracy is a disability…

— Abdul Sattar Edhi

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the…

— Abdul Qadeer Khan

Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto…

— David Duke

Ignorance and illiteracy are obviously not synonymous; even illiterate masses can cast their ballots with intelligence, once they are informed.

— William Orville Douglas

We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more…

— Tom Cruise

Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't…

— Alaa Al Aswany