"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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"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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"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, Financial, Population, Shame

"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."

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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."

Family, Money, Women, Policy

"Poverty is unnecessary."

Poverty,

"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, Development, Right, Talking

"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, People, Names

"Business money is limitless."

Business, Money

"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, People, Giving, Woman

"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."

Money, People, Idea, Circumstances

"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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"A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Society, Mankind, Needs, Self, State

"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Society, Intelligence, Knowledge, Fact, Mind

"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

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"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

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"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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