Boxes Quote by Jim Trelease

Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that doesn't read…

— Jim Trelease

“A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt…

— Israelmore Ayivor

A democracy depends on its people, the literate and the well read.

— Dev Anand

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

— Brad Henry

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

— Isaac Asimov

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to…

— Henry Giroux

One of the things that amazes me is the amount of functional illiteracy in this country... people can't read to get around, or people…

— Edward Albert

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

— Che Guevara

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if…

— Ray Bradbury

We know that literate people are more likely than others to participate in their societies' democratic institutions and that the risk of war drops…

— Julia Gillard

Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Illiteracy is simply the inability to read and write.”

— Sunday Adelaja