“the aging and grumpy Plato, in Book VII of the Laws, gave his definition of scientific illiteracy: Who is unable to count… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Illiteracy, both in words and numbers, is the foundation of financial struggle. — Salaudeen Babatunde Copy Share Image
“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The worst form of illiteracy is not knowing how to read the signs of your creator. — Navaid Aziz Copy Share Image
“Kuna tofauti kati ya hekima na maarifa. Unaweza kuwa profesa ukawa mpumbavu, unaweza kuwa gumbaru ukawa na hekima.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Illiteracy causes violence. If you don't have enough words in your vocabulary, you can't even seek your way out of a situation. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“Illiterate people should only be charged for the photographs; when buying a newspaper.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely… — Nicole Peeler Copy Share Image
I think it's a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
“Baltimore's slogan was 'The City that Reads', but like the rest of its one million or so inhabitants Lori knew that was… — Stephen Leather Copy Share Image
The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
“Considering the comparative lifespans of simpler tribal societies and that of the more advanced agri-urban empires of antiquity, even here in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the Romani people came and settled in Gioia Tauro in the '60s and the '70s, they took over a neighborhood much… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
I would like to see the U.S. fighting another war, perhaps in addition to that against terror: a war on poverty, illiteracy,… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The rich does not work for money, but money work for them…, While the poor work for money.Illiteracy, both in word and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There aren't enough professionals to solve the world's problems. There will never be enough doctors to solve the health problems of the… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
“You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century.… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Copy Share Image
Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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