Article August 5, 1991 Issue

POSITIVE PRESS

Jonathan Kozol

From the 1991 Prayer Booklet published by United Bible Societies, Reading, England

"Why do illiterate people want to read? The first answer I get ... is 'I want to read the Bible'. The Bible! That stuns me ... partly because I am an agnostic ... but I always find it moving. It touches me deeply when these people who have so many other needs in life state that they want to read the Bible. Sometimes it is a religious longing. Sometimes the Bible stands for history, for an answer to the eternal questions all of us ask: 'Who am I, where do I come from, where do I?'"

—Jonathan Kozol, American literacy expert.

Reprinted with permission, United Bible Societies/World Report

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