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Literacy is the ability to read and write.

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Alferd Williams (b. 1937) was one of nine children born into a family of sharecroppers in Eudora, Arizona. When he was a boy, his family could not afford for both he and his twin brother to be gone...

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Personal Stories

Fate

I had problems finding a job after I got let go from a previous job. I was at the end of my rope and then I saw an ad in the newspaper for a caretaker for an assisted living facility that specialized in caring for the Mentally Ill. Fate would have... Read more
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LITERACY

Quotes
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We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Minister, Civil Rights Activist (1929-1968);
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman Orator (106-43);
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another.
Ayn Rand Writer, Philosopher (1905-1982);
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The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B. B. King American Blues Guitarist, Songwriter (born 1925);
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In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
Gamaliel Bradford Biographer, Critic, Poet And Dramatist (1863-1932);
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