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…Poverty and violence are not God made, they are man made. Poverty and peace cannot coexist.

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All my life I have worked to change concepts, and that begins with how people see and understand the problems.

Every human being has something, a spiritual element, that makes them want to do better, to reach higher.

Microfinance is the best example of success in the kinds of systemic institutional areas.

SEWA is now the largest union in India, with a membership of around 1.2 million women.

Systems are needed, for example for management, accounting, skill development and MIS to serve the needs of the working poor.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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