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The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

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When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for ...more

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If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot ...more

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Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, ...more

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..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

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Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

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Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themse...more

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UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportu...more

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Changes are products of intensive efforts.