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Quotes About Illiteracy

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
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
sighed in resignation, having long since given up on today's youth and their utter historical illiteracy, a product of their deliberate educational brainwashing.
~ Unknown
If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent and every adult caring for a child read aloud three stories a day to the children in their lives ,we would probably wipe out illiteracy in one generation" Reading Magic Mem Fox
~ Mem Fox
La afición a la lectura ha llegado a ser tan sospechosa que el analfabetismo se hace deseable y honroso.
~ Miguel Delibes
Her mother couldn't read. Her mother hadn't noticed the signs of a bad winter. Cian wasn't even there. Hereswith was far away, and Fursey. She had taken a double risk and there was no one to help her.
~ Nicola Griffith
país dominado por las deudas, el analfabetismo, el clero, los agiotistas y los militares.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
alternately on his thickly moustached face; he spoke with the unassailable confidence that a college-education in the midst of general illiteracy gives one.
~ Pankaj Mishra