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The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them

Quote 269: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Poverty, Quotes

Poverty belongs only in the museum, not in any human society

Quote 268: poverty, quotes, professsormuhammadyunus

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like

Quote 267: poverty, quotes, professsormuhammadyunus

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don...

Quote 266: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Poverty Qutes

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. For building stable peace we must find ways to provide opportunities for people to live decent lives

Quote 265: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Poverty, Quotes

Poverty has been created by the economic and social system that we have designed for the world. It is the institutions that we have built, and feel so proud of, which created poverty

Quote 264: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Poverty, Quotes

The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in...

Quote 263: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Poverty, Quotes

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. We can create a poverty-free world if we redesign our system to take out its gross flaws which create poverty. It...

Quote 262: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Poverty, Quotes

People were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base

Quote 261: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Poverty, Quotes

I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we...

Quote 260: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Poverty, Quotes
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