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“Používám tvoje jméno, Nino, a přidávám k němu jiná jména, podstatná a nepodstatná, přídavná, vlastní a nevlastní, místní a nemístná, a dělám to, abys měla barvu ve tvářích a jas v očích, v každé kapitole tě nalíčím před zrcadlem obrazovky, upravím tě, abys mohla do světa, a potom pro tebe v šatní skříni jazyka vyberu slovesa, která budou nejlépe vyhovovat tvému temperamentu a tvým způsobům. Jsi moje postava, a tak se o tebe starám. Jsi moje figurína, moje loutka, můj maňásek, moje nafukovací panna, která toho sama se sebou má společného tolik — neříkám, zda tak málo, nebo tak moc —, kolik má milostný román, když se to tak vezme, společného s láskou.”

“Poverty - the greatest cause of human suffering on the planet - is itself exacerbated by conflict, competition for resources, injustice, even the global downturn and climate change. Diseases like AIDS, TB and malaria cannot be tackled without adequate resources. So you see everything is connected. In order to address any major cause of human suffering, we have to work together across many fronts.”

“Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.”

“Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally experience through the lives of friends, family, neighbors, colleagues. I'd venture to say it's a rare person in 2013 America who knows nobody who lost a job in the recession, or knows nobody whose home went underwater or who went into foreclosure.”

“Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand with, in many instances, customers from rich countries circumventing their national laws to exploit children in other countries. Sex tourism has spread its illicit wings wide, and paedophiles search for their victims in all parts of the globe. The problem is compounded by the criminal networks which benefit from the trade in children, and by collusion and corruption in many national settings.”