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Poverty is not created by poo...

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

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We can remove poverty from th...

We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.

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Poverty does not belong in ci...

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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The poor themselves can creat...

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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We got rid of colonialism, we...

We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible. Let's take the next impossible, do it with joy and get it finished with and create a world free from poverty. Let us create the world of our choice.

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Poor people always pay back t...

Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

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I had only immediate things t...

I had only immediate things today, only today, not tomorrow. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. Today I can see myself like crystal.

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Money commands everything bec...

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

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An individual poor person is ...

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

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Policies are also to blame: t...

Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.

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When a destitute mother start...

When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's second priority is the household. She wants to buy utensils, build a stronger roof, or find a bed for herself and her family. A man has an entirely different set of priorities. When a destitute father earns extra income, he focuses more attention on himself. Thus money entering a household through a woman brings more benefits to the family as a whole.

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...one cannot but wonder how ...

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

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This is not charity. This is ...

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

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People should wake up in the ...

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

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What I did not know yet about...

What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues.

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Each individual person is ver...

Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.

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Once poverty is gone, we'll n...

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.

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My vision for the future? Two...

My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take loans and implement his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes possible. And second: that it will lead to a world where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world completely free from poverty.

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Charity only perpetuates pove...

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

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There is the expression of sel...

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

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