Quotes About Illiteracy

Because so many voters happen to be illiterate, India invented the party symbol, so that voters who could not read the name of their candidate could vote for him or her anyway by recognizing the symbol under which they campaigned.

And there are among them illiterates

Dictatorul e de meserie cizmar, diploma scoalara si-a cumparat-o. Nu stie nici sa scrie nici sa citeasca, spune mama, e mai prost ca noaptea. Dar noaptea nu ucide, spune tata.

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.

What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

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.

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.

Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

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

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

In the shimmering ignorance of illiteracy of compassion and faith the stoic desire of loving without temporal gains rules the hearts and minds in deeds and care

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

Por eso estaba convencido de la necesidad de mantener la institución monárquica, porque pensaba que en un país con tantos esclavos, analfabetos y pobres, una república no tendría sentido y el país acabaría fragmentándose, como había sucedido en la América española.

Wisdom and intellect is every man's friend, ignorance and illiteracy are his enemies.

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

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

Further, churches assert their wish to save men from a future hell. Then they should prove their love toward men by helping save the world from today's hell of illiteracy, hunger, misery, tyranny, exploitation, and war.

We have to do something about this hate, and you have to get to the root of hate. The roots are poverty and disease and illiteracy.

Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.

Ignorance is Illiteracy.

They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.

In antiquity, the Gospel was not read by most people, in part because copying books was expensive, and in part because most people were illiterate. Instead, the Gospel was performed. We can picture the speaker, demonstrating angelic exasperation, wondering how he will deal with this obtuse priest.

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDS, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of these wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead—everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real. —Bruce Jackson Keynote address "Media and War" symposium, University of Buffalo November 17–18, 2003