Illiteracy Quotes

72 quotes by 64 authors

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
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
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. — Maya Angelou
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy. — Albert Mohler
Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy. — Richard Allington
The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy. — Ronald Knox
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
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. — Alberto Moravia
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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