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
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
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
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
Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future… — Timothy Thomas Fortune 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
“Kuna tofauti kati ya hekima na maarifa. Unaweza kuwa profesa ukawa mpumbavu, unaweza kuwa gumbaru ukawa na hekima.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of… — Melvin B. Tolson Copy Share Image
“Any philosopher, any international economist may talk to me about the methods I have introduced and the thoughts behind them. Illiteracy is… — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
We stand in the shadow of the Bible today as opposed to in the pages of the Bible. I think that the… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
“Continued resistance to female education means that female illiteracy is higher than male, yet it is usually women who do the artificial… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“70 out of 100 people in the world cannot read... if you can read then you are the luckiest out of 2… — Call Bain Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Yes and I appreciate it. But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy. — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to … A form of political illiteracy. — Bill Kraus Copy Share Image
“sighed in resignation, having long since given up on today’s youth and their utter historical illiteracy, a product of their deliberate educational… — Matthew Bracken Copy Share Image
“Illiteracy is dependence. By finding the courage to learn to read and write, Hanna had advanced from dependence to independence, a step… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition,… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also… — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth… — Phil Harding 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
In a state of poverty, illiteracy, people just remain exposed to all kinds of manipulation. That's what we have lived. It's easier… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
