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You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy. — M.F. Moonzajer

Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century! — Greg Roberts

The smallest world on earth is that which is created by a closed mind. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible. — Edwin Louis Cole

If literacy was natural, the word 'illiteracy' would not exist. — T.K. Naliaka

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

Illiteracy is a fertile ground for manipulation — Thabiso Monkoe

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure. — Ambeth R. Ocampo

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. — Joseph Brodsky

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

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

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

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

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

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

No one ever went to prison because of bad grammar, but the prisons are full of people who are there because of emotional illiteracy. — Gay Hendricks

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

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

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

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

A dog's best friend is his illiteracy. — Ogden Nash

Illiteracy is a form of slavery!" he would cry. "We can't waste time blaming anyone. We need to become obsessed with teaching people to read! — John Corcoran

LOL could go and take a running jump. I wasn't made for illiteracy; it simply didn't come naturally. — Gail Honeyman

Beware the man of a single book. — Thomas Aquinas

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy. — May-Britt Moser

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

I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops ... eventually it all catches you at the same time. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

To the uneducated an A is just three sticks. — A.A. Milne

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

Illiterate people should only be charged for the photographs; when buying a newspaper. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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

Ah, he thought, for one who cannot read--or think--the Image, the physical form of Love! — Willa Cather

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication. — Karen Black

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. — Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy. — Toba Beta

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. — Elbert Hubbard

Our real illiteracy is our inability to create — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world. — Peter Davis

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy. — Richard Allington

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

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

Illiteracy and stupidity are not quite different statuses; they are both the outcome of our lethargy and indolence. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

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

The illiteracy level of our children are appalling. — George W. Bush

Ignorance is Illiteracy. — Ahtesham

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson

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