Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
— Frederick Douglass
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Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.
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There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.
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— Bill Clinton
Art is literacy of the heart.
—Frank Serafini
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-Elliot Eisner
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