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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
Education
Ignorance
People
School
Mother
College
Some People
Understanding
Intolerant
Unable
Must
Some
More
Said
Always
Educated
Go
Were
Intelligent
Than
Illiteracy
Professors
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Vision
Fear
Free
Hunger
India
Want
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.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Hatred
Needy
Intolerance
Something
Conditions
Trying
Poor
Roots
Help
Illiteracy
Violence
There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'
Bobby Ghosh
Democracy
Problems
Poverty
Say
India
Table
About
Guys
More
Idea
Come
Talk
How
Coming
Optimistic
Where
Different
Region
Much
Illiteracy
Bring
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
Danny Glover
Men
Country
Prison
Young
Find
Highest
Highest Levels
Environmentally
Look
Toxic
Also
Houston
Very
Going
Place
Which
Young Men
Illiteracy
Among
Levels
One of the things that amazes me is the amount of functional illiteracy in this country... people can't read to get around, or people who can't read the newspaper but can barely read street signs.
Edward Albert
Me
People
Signs
Country
One Of The Things
Read
Around
Amazes
Get
Newspaper
Barely
Who
Illiteracy
Functional
Street
Amount
Things
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
You
Symptom
Our
Ruler
Moral
Carrying
Pocket
Civilisation
New
Forbidden
Least
Disease
Just
Disintegration
Should
Your
Illiteracy
Symbol
Basis
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.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Good
People
Care
Will
Made
Nowadays
Take
Educational
Hands
Legislation
Reproach
Them
Illiteracy
Illiterate
Largely
I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.
Ken Jennings
Kids
Lifetime
Geographic
Condemned
Illiteracy
Look at how the British covered India with railroads, and it is easy to view them as modernisers. Look, however, at the abysmal levels of mass illiteracy in the subcontinent they left behind in 1947, and they appear rather differently.
Linda Colley
India
Easy
Rather
Mass
Abysmal
Look
How
However
Covered
Left
Behind
Them
View
Illiteracy
Appear
Railroads
Differently
Levels
British
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
Mal Peet
Book
One Book
Only
Variety
Read
Any
Form
Illiteracy
Fundamentalism
Necessary
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.
Naveen Jain
Me
Women
Father
Poverty
Luck
Saw
India
Civil
Born
Civil Servant
Dire
Seemed
Only
Boy
Women And Children
Effects
Northern
Often
Where
Children
The Only Thing
Them
Separating
Illiteracy
Servant
Thing
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
Nicolas Sarkozy
War
Competition
Poverty
Unfair
Wage
Unemployment
Want
Against
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.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
Today
Lie
Poverty
Situation
Community
Analytical
Our
Our Community
Global
Institutions
Inequality
Authoritative
Reports
Expert
Realise
Reasons
Illiteracy
Need
Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race.
Robin DiAngelo
Problem
Our
Ability
About
Like
Understand
Limits
Trying
Conversations
Race
Meaningful
Racial
User
Illiteracy
Technical
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
Education
Heart
Book
Poverty
Promoting
Pick
Encouraging
Up
Close
Effort
Children
Illiteracy
Fundamental
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
Education
Ignorance
Reality
Public Education
Before
Back
Mass
Days
Practical
Became
Pine
America
Public
Held
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.
Victoria Osteen
Home
Communication
Value
Reading
Focusing
Destructive
Parent
Generational
Opens
Because
Lines
Child
Children
Break
Much
Cycle
Your
Your Child
Illiteracy
Desire
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