Top 119 Illiteracy Quotes & Sayings

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.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.

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

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.

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

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.

Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental.

By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

For whatever reason, illiteracy continues to plague the racist troll community.

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

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.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

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.

This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy.

There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

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

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.

The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

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

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

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.

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.

In the decades since my youth, I've witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an exponential increase in illiteracy and crime.

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

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.

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.

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race.

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

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.