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  • Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

  • The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

    George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life

  • Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring misinformation, miseducation and illiteracy.

    Source: chicagoist.com
  • 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, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

    War   Justice   Hatred  
  • I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.

    Education   Hurt   Cancer  
    Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner
  • There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

    "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.
  • Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

    Roots   Hatred   Trying  
  • 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 generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.464, Ballantine Books
  • I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest challenge facing humanity. That is why I build schools; I want to free people from poverty and illiteracy.

    Source: profitmagazin.com
  • Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt. On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.

  • We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have not heard Arne Duncan, who is the U.S. Education Secretary, mention once the civic illiteracy in the country.

    Source: annaz.blogspot.com
  • Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.

    Views   Addiction   Drug  
  • This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy.

  • Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.

    "The State Against Blacks" by Jason L. Riley, www.wsj.com. January 22, 2011.
  • The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

    Book   Reading   Knowing  
  • I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

  • Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

  • I love the spirit of young girls and women and try to keep that spirit alive in my life and in my own personality as well as facilitate that spirit to have a place of respect and honor in our society. I am a firm believer that if we turned the running of the world over to the women things would improve markedly in many of the areas in which we find ourselves in trouble: war, poverty, hunger, illiteracy, sexual violence, prejudice, etc.

    Girl   Running   War  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

    "Visions: Maya Angelou". Interview With Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1995.
  • Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.

    Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.175, Dundurn
  • There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.

    Potters   Film   Lord  
    "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.
  • In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

    Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”
  • Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

    Godly   Impossible   Sand  
  • In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.

  • Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger.

    Gay   Hands   World  
  • Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

    Dog   People   Shelter  
    Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.159, Pan Macmillan
  • Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!

  • 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 going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

    Country   Men   Toxic  
    Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.
  • The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

    Jawaharlal Nehru, H. N. Sethna (1981). “Proceedings of the International Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society in Developing Countries, Bombay, November 1979”
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