Ela Bhatt famous quotes
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It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.
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Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve most of the problems, personal as well as the world problems. If the life approach is simple one need not lie so frequently, nor quarrel nor steal, nor envy, anger, abuse, kill. Everyone will have enough and plenty so need not hoard, speculate, gamble, hate. When character is beautiful, you are beautiful. That is the beauty of simplicity.
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I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.
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Statistics in the hands of activists have power.
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Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best
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It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty
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Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.
-- Ela Bhatt
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In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.
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Owain crossed his arms over his chest. "I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now." "So, in other words," North said, "you're living in poverty?
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Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.
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No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance
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The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.
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It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
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Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation.
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Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage
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It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.
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