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Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication. -- Karen Black
The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy. -- Ronald Knox
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. -- Nicolas Sarkozy
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. -- Maya Angelou
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. -- Ezra Pound
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental. -- Sasha Grey
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. -- Abdul Qadeer Khan
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. -- Maya Angelou
As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy. -- Nursultan Nazarbayev
Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work. -- Timothy Thomas Fortune
As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life. -- Naveen Jain
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation. -- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck. -- Naveen Jain
Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate. -- Roseanne Barr
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 must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve. -- William McKinley
Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism . . . We advance. -- Melvin B. Tolson
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
A dog's best friend is his illiteracy. -- Ogden Nash
I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy. -- Ken Jennings
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems. -- Kailash Satyarthi
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. -- Maya Angelou
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. -- Alberto Moravia
In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony. -- Harlan Ellison
Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy. -- Bill Kraus
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book. -- Mal Peet
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. -- Nelson Mandela
There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle. -- Kailash Satyarthi
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy. -- Timothy Noah
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication. -- Victoria Osteen
Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, and unemployment. -- Derek Bok
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 -- Danny Glover
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. -- Danny Glover
Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real. -- Bruce Jackson
There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.' -- Bobby Ghosh
Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner. -- Pratibha Patil
For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world. -- Clare Short
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Politicians exploit economic illiteracy. -- Walter E. Williams
Our real illiteracy is our inability to create -- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The illiteracy level of our children are appalling. -- George W. Bush
Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century! -- Greg Roberts
Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible. -- Edwin Louis Cole
This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy. -- Albert Mohler
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems. -- Kailash Satyarthi
Maybe I'm the badass lady who rids Mexico of drugs, of oppression and illiteracy. -- Andrea Suarez Paz
Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy. -- Richard Allington
There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'... -- Peter Greenaway
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. -- Neil Gaiman
Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep. -- Northrop Frye
As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy. -- May-Britt Moser
Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy. -- James Cook
Yes and I appreciate it. But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy. -- Kevin Hearne
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
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
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... -- Henry Giroux
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope. -- John F. Kennedy
Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else. -- Charles A. Murray
Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy. -- Gerald Kaufman
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
Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy. -- Pope John Paul II
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 -- Rigoberta Menchu
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
Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the public mind. -- H. G. Wells
It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context of climate change, travel congestion, unaffordable housing, and resource depletion -- Phil Harding

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