The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.
I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.
White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate.
If you look at the 911 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
Somehow it's O. K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.
What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?
If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.
Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.
I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
I can read minds, but I'm illiterate.
If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.
National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.
A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a nation that's science and chemistry illiterate. And you thought a lot of meth labs are blowing up now?
