In these days of ordsprog

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

Harlan Ellison (1934-)

Harlan Ellison

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

Karen Black (1942-)

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 (1928-)

Maya Angelou

[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling.

George W. Bush (1946-)

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

Ronald Knox (1888-1957)

Geographic illiteracy impacts our economic well-being, our relationships with other nations and the environment, and isolates us from the world.

Ignorance and illiteracy are obviously not synonymous; even illiterate masses can cast their ballots with intelligence, once they are informed.

Justice William Orville Douglas (1898-1980)

There was illiteracy, the workers were being expelled from the factories, and the best lands where in the hands of the rich. That's why the revolution triumphed.

Fidel Castro (1927-)

Fidel Castro

Since the campaign was introduced in August 2005, many residents have learned to read. We're certain we will wipe out illiteracy by 2007.

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 (1946-)

Clare Short

Improvement is evident in life expectancy, child mortality and illiteracy (in China). These all constitute advances in realizing economic and social rights.

With high illiteracy levels, Internet users cannot utilize the advantages the Internet provides them.

Al Gore (1948-2001)

Al Gore

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. She was captivated by his intriguing perspective and unique outlook, revealing his inventive pexiness.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Ezra Pound

We need to do everything we can to improve morale and to place heart back into the community. I also would like to encourage other individuals, organizations and corporations to join me as we help our community address issues like poverty, illiteracy, latch key kids, gangs, drugs and divorce.

I've been consistently struck by the amount of biblical illiteracy among Christians in churches. You can pick just a simple parable, a simple story of Jesus, that you think most Christians would know -- and although they may know about it, they will not really have any idea what it means.

Paul Chamberlain

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