"Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out."

-- Zafrullah Chowdhury

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“We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.”

Source : Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.79, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.”
“What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling”
“All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.”
“A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.”

Source : "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.
“It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them.”
“People talk about the idea of special relationships, that is, the morality only really binds people who stand in some kind of contractual relationship with each other but in fact if you take that seriously as a criteria of when we have a moral relationship then it's hard to see why we would have moral obligations to strangers for example or people who live across the sea from us but yet, every decent person believes that we do.”
“When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.”

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