Community Quote by LeVar Burton Download Open image “For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.” — LeVar Burton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Freedom Individual Inspirational Literacy Mean
Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say, — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from ignorance, oppression,… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition... — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.” — Taylor Ellwood Copy Share Image
Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to. — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions. — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids. — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
I want to live in an America where we are able to marshal all the resources we have at our disposal and that we… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win. — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all. — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
Human beings are the laziest creatures in the history of creation. We would rather not do anything if we could avoid it — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image