#illiteracy

"Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble."

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

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

"Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy."

"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."