Illiteracy Quotes - Page 3

• Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

  Mal Peet

  Book, Form, Variety

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• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  School, People, Challenges

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty, hunger, disease, and devastation. Add to that another two billion people who are just plain poor. If you look into the world of those caught in economic oppression, illiteracy, disease, and sexism, then you'll understand more clearly what we have to do.

  Harry Belafonte

  Opportunity, Two, People

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• I think it's a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates, the illiteracy rate, you know literacy in the United States was a lot higher in 1890 than it is now.

  Milton Friedman

  School, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Yes and I appreciate it. But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy.

  Kevin Hearne

  Running, Appreciate, Filters

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One”, p.301, Del Rey

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• 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.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Justice, Hatred

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• Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.

  Walter E. Williams

  Politician, Economic, Exploits

  "The State Against Blacks" by Jason L. Riley, www.wsj.com. January 22, 2011.

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• there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cutting, Age, Superstitions

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.66, Penguin

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• Maybe I'm the badass lady who rids Mexico of drugs, of oppression and illiteracy.

  Andrea Suarez Paz

  Badass, Drug, Mexico

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!

  Greg Roberts

  Century, 21st Century

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• 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.

  Alaa Al Aswany

  Hands, Practice, Political

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• We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever. When in fact we need communication more urgently than ever, because the enemies that threaten us are universal: drugs, illiteracy and crime. We have to fight against them together.

  Tom Cruise

  Communication, Fighting, Drug

  "Actor Tom Cruise Opens Up about his Beliefs in the Church of Scientology". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 27, 2005.

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• The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own

  Amartya Sen

  Education, Ignorance, Opportunity

  Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen, World Institute for Development Economics Research (1997). “Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.

  Bill Kraus

  Political, Television, Information

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• People power must be combined with good governance to bring about real, deep and lasting change. This combination can achieve almost everything from eliminating corruption to ending malnutrition and illiteracy.

  Narendra Modi

  Real, Lasting Change, People

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• Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Science, Leaving, Atmosphere

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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• I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Challenges, Good Man

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• 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

  Alarms, Doe, Levels

  Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt

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• 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.

  John Waters

  Gay, Hands, World

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• Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.

  James Cook

  Jobs, Government, Creating

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• The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Moving, Paris, Clouds

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• 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.

  Richard Mitchell

  Educational, Taken, Ignorance

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• Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

  Richard Allington

  Inspiring, Education, Children

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• I hope someday we can stamp out illiteracy in America. Of course you'll have to kill alot of my relatives to do it.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  America, Someday, Stamps

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• Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.

  Roseanne Barr

  Country, America, Adults

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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