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
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
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
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
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
For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition.… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been… — Nell Irvin Painter 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
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
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
“Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and… — Peter S. Jennison 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