Fortune Quote by Salaudeen Babatunde

Having a financially illiterate society is dangerous, and we have to do something about that.

— Mellody Hobson

“Illiteracy is a fertile ground for manipulation”

— Thabiso Monkoe

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…

— Carl Sagan

Illiteracy causes violence. If you don't have enough words in your vocabulary, you can't even seek your way out of a situation.

— KRS-One

Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

— Alan Greenspan

Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.

— Northrop Frye

Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.

— Mary McCarthy

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

— Karen Black

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

We've been in lots of places that I suppose, by Oxford standards, would be considered illiterate, but everyone's completely conversant with the idea that…

— Bill McKibben

“If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist.”

— T.K. Naliaka