#right

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#literacy #education

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet. ↗

— Joanna Russ

#contrary #faith #gambler #ideas #like

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#doubts #freak #frightened #further #had

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy. ↗

— Alfred E. Smith

#constitution #law #oppose #organize #our

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress. ↗

— Dick Smothers

#fun #go #having #having fun #hey

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clear #create #creativity #design #fashion-designer

If you don't listen to the question entirely, then you are going to revise your answers frequently. ↗

— Toba Beta

#the-art-of-listening-question #art

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits. ↗

— Chin-Ning Chu

#strategy #art

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#frightful #nasty #object #prettiest #ugly

I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage that night, and even those spoken words had to struggle their way out of my mouth. It's all very well for words to build bridges, but sometimes I think it's a matter of knowing when to do it. Knowing when the time's right. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#courage #knowing-when-the-time-is-right #limit #mouth #spoken-words