Literacy And Democracy Quotes

“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What kind of gulag is it when its inhabitants are too stupid to understand they are its prisoners?”
― Sergio Troncoso

“Never again will I sign a blank sheet of paper with my thumbprint.”
― Mukhtar Mai, In the Name of Honour - A Memoir

“An informed public depends upon literacy and language: its good use, conception, comprehension and incorruptibility.”
― Barbara Chase-Riboud, I Always Knew: A Memoir

“A literate society depends on three things: culture, communication, and choice. One could add that culture is also faith and morality, that communication is also social interaction and equality, and that choice is both individualism and political action.”
― Barbara Chase-Riboud, I Always Knew: A Memoir