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"Poverty is unnecessary."
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"Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room."
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"I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the daytime, you would give me a sou!"
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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
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"Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve."
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"Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross."
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"When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'."
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"Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount."
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"
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"Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance."
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"Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away."
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"I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them."
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"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."
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"I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked."
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"But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities."
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"Poverty is unnecessary."
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"They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy."
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"Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women."
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"I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation."
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"I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh."
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