Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Petersen

There is no such thing as a leap into literacy.

Marshall McLuhan

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

Paul Thomson

We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.

Matt Taibbi

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

Cecil Rhodes

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

Charlotte Bronte

Be a governess! Better be a slave at once!

Granth Sahib

He is the slave of the Lord's slaves.

Alan Keyes

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Chinua Achebe

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

Daymond John

Money is a great slave but a horrible master.

David Brooks

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

Beau Willimon

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Esther Rolle

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.

Karla Comfort

That was the only reason. You wake up every day and find a reason to go on. My reason is I have kids.

Paul DePodesta

We just couldn't get on the same page. That's really the only reason why.

Frank Floyd

I think it will work out. If for some reason it doesn't, we'll have to go back in and re-evaluate it. But it's better than what we have right now.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Jon Jovi

We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be.

Todd Clark

The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.