
Inauguration of Library of Birmingham, Jan 2013
UN speech, June 2013
Context: So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.
Inauguration of Library of Birmingham, Jan 2013
abcnews.go.com http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/peace-prize-childrens-rights-met-praise-26098345
“Let me recommend this book – one of the most remarkable ever penned.”
Sherlock Holmes, in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four, ch. 2.
Criticism of The Martyrdom of Man
“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), p. 400
Inauguration of Library of Birmingham, Jan 2013
“Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them.”
Macca the paperback writer, Guardian, (22 March 2005) http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1443374,00.html
The Triple Thinkers (1938) [Oxford University Press, 1948], Preface, p. ix
“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”