Big Quote by Peter Diamandis

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

— Peter Diamandis

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

Global education is something that is important for me. Because I believe that our future is going to be built by our young generation.

— Anousheh Ansari

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our…

— Hugh Mackay

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full…

— Kofi Annan

Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for…

— Kofi Annan

Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say,

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

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

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

— Steven Pinker

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living…

— Harri Holkeri

On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are…

— Kofi Annan

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

— Robert Hass