Quotes about Literacy

In the earlier days of freedom almost every coloured man who learned to read would receive "a call to preach" within a few days after he began reading.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

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

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free.

Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

One you learn to READ, you will be forever free

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't make that mistake again.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.