One must always have in mind one simple fact — there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.


Interview with John Newark (1990) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004), ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

One must always have in mind one simple fact — there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population...

One must always have in mind one simple fact — there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population...

One must always have in mind one simple fact — there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population...

One must always have in mind one simple fact — there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population...