Our real illiteracy is our inability to create
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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.
there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.
A dog's best friend is his illiteracy.
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.
The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.
I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and the scientific production and distribution can be tackled only along socialistic lines. The Very first thing that our future national government will have to do is to set up a commission for drawing up a comprehensive plan for reconstruction.
Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.
Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to. . . . A form of political illiteracy.
Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.
Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt. On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.
I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.
Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!
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.
Maybe I'm the badass lady who rids Mexico of drugs, of oppression and 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.