My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever begin to imagine.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Ah, he thought, for one who cannot read--or think--the Image, the physical form of Love!” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep. — Northrop Frye 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
As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy. — May-Britt Moser Copy Share Image
In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of… — Mary McCarthy 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
Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently.… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
People power must be combined with good governance to bring about real, deep and lasting change. This combination can achieve almost everything… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation… — Mihai Nadin Copy Share Image
Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate.… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
“Did you know that seventy-five to eighty percent of juvenile offenders can’t read at grade level?” “Really?” This was news to me.… — Carolee Dean Copy Share Image
The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets… — Frosty Wooldridge 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
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
“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
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
“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
Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy. — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
“Illiterate people should only be charged for the photographs; when buying a newspaper.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy.” — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
