Illiteracy Quotes
72 quotes by 64 authors
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Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve…
— Derek Bok
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated…
— Maya Angelou
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
— Maya Angelou
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Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946,…
— Daniel Berrigan
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The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake.…
— Amartya Sen
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People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and the scientific production…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a…
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds…
— John F. Kennedy
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It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context…
— Phil Harding
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Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human…
— John F. Kennedy
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America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to…
— Carl Sagan
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If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men…
— Danny Glover
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This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy.
— Albert Mohler
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Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.
— Richard Allington
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The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.
— Ronald Knox
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Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which,…
— William McKinley
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The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
— Alberto Moravia
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The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills…
— Mihai Nadin
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