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"Poverty is unnecessary."
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"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."
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Personal Development
"It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty."
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Personal Development
"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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Personal Development
"Clothes are a homeless man's home."
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Personal Development
"Juice is a poor man's dessert."
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Personal Development
"Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point."
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Personal Development
"In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike."
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Personal Development
"I write to escape; to escape poverty."
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"Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame."
People
"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."
Money
"Poverty is unnecessary."
Poverty
"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."
Money
"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."
Family
"They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy."
Money
"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."
People
"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."
Money
"My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see."
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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."
Society
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