“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.”
Gore Vidal
“The greatest book about giving that I've ever read is 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens, about Scrooge and how happy he was when he started doing things to help Tiny Tim's impoverished family, ... Remember? His whole attitude changed and he was happy.”
Ted Turner
“The pen was his voice and the page his tears, when he was done; they called it a classic”
Richard Bellzon
“The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.”
William Blum
“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”
J. D. Salinger
“Ignorance and illiteracy are obviously not synonymous; even illiterate masses can cast their ballots with intelligence, once they are informed.”
William Orville Douglas
“No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.”
Walter Lippmann
