“In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.”
“Ignorance is a knowledge 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.”
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”
“I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.”
“Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.”