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To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only the soil-base you provided was inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on.


Muhammad Yunus


#microfinance #poverty #social-business #society #business

[Saying] No to racial injustice means a call to look our own bigotry straight in the eye, and No to world hunger calls upon us to recognize our own lack of poverty. No to war requires us to come to terms with our own violence and aggression, and no to oppression and torture forces us to deal directly with our own insensitivities. And so all our No's become challenges to purify our own hearts. In this sense, confrontation always includes self-confrontation. (p. 123-124)


Henri J. M. Nouwen Donald P. McNeill Douglas A. Morrison


#confrontation #poverty #racism #self-confrontation #war

The limited circle is pure.


Franz Kafka


#introverts #society #introvert

UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.


Muhammad Yunus


#family-planning #poverty #social-change #women #change

The poor are not a problem but rather an opportunity to show unconditional love.


Dillon Burroughs


#poverty #love

His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty!


Major Thomas


#drive #folly #grace #greed #joy

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.


Edward Bellamy


#men

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.


Norman Borlaug


#constant #continual #developing #famine #fear

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.


Frank Church


#american public #cia #committee #concern #covert

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.


Horace


#both #cultivates #envy #golden #hovel






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