People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate. — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor… — Abdul Qadeer Khan 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
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
One of the things that amazes me is the amount of functional illiteracy in this country... people can't read to get around,… — Edward Albert Copy Share Image
Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development.” — Sunday Adelaja 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
“Black illiteracy decreased to 16.4 percent in 1930, from 45 percent in 1900. Fewer black babies died at birth—by half. Black life… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan you are not rebuilding, you are building. There is very limited infrastructure and extreme terrain, with deserts in the south… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by… — Gerald Kaufman Copy Share Image
Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
“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
In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
“Not a thousand years ago, it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Anything would be better in the US than what you have. As a government it's really very low quality, given the fact… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
“But Christian illiteracy is only the first part of the crisis. Even more seriously, even for those who think they speak “Christian”… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
