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Quotes by Bangladeshi Authors
"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
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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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"Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression."
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"Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?"
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"Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay."
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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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"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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"The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality."
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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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"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."
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"The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism."
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"Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion."
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"It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy."
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"Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?"
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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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"Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force."
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"Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past."
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"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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"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."
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"There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences."
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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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"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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"At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic."
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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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