"Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty"
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"It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America."
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"What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?"
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"The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way."
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"A culture that holds people back should and can be changed."
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"I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I thought I did that. I prepared myself for that kind of road. But then I realized that I had not learned enough to solve the problem of poverty. So I distanced myself from the things that I learned and tried to learn anew about people."
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"To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty."
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"The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India."
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"How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!"
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"Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world."
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