

“...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.”
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
“We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age, class, and race, and insist that we spend so much psychic energy on our faces, clothes and bodies that nothing is left for ideas, social change, or politics.”
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“Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.”
― Eumeswil
― Eumeswil

“Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).”
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

“Changes are products of intensive efforts.”
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
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