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“Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.”

Reason Faith Fighting Fear Poor Cold Weapons Logic Overcoming Generosity Distrust

Book:Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal

Source: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal

“Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.”

“If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit. Money is power. I have been arguing that credit should be accepted as a human right. If we can come up with a system which allows everybody access to credit while ensuring excellent repayment - I can give you a guarantee that poverty will not last long.”

“I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest challenge facing humanity. That is why I build schools; I want to free people from poverty and illiteracy.”

People Want Helping Use Problem School Humanity Challenges Poor Poverty Overcoming Confronting Illiteracy Help The Poor

Author:Nelson Mandela

“My major concern about leaving enhancement to the marketplace is that then the rich will be able to buy themselves genetically superior children and the poor will not - sharpening the class divisions we have now. That problem could be overcome if, genetic enhancement were available to all, subsidized by the state - and that would, over time, have benefits for society as well.”

Children Problem Poor Rich Concern Overcoming Leaving

Author:Peter Singer

“What you see around the world is that poverty is not destiny. In other countries, much more systemically, student after student, school after school, year after year, educate poor and disadvantaged young people. And, so, anyone who says that you can't overcome these battles is a huge part of the problem.”

People World Country Problem School Poor Poverty Destiny Students Battle Overcoming Educate After School

Author:Arne Duncan

“It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.”

Giving May Children Belief Poor Taught Return Taste Weakness Overcoming Simplicity Possession Generosity Indian Native Prize Guests Native American Tribes Clans Native Wisdom

Author:Charles Alexander Eastman

“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.”

“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.”

Men Humans Made Action Natural Justice Human Beings Poor Poverty Overcoming Social Justice Slavery Humanitarian Apartheid Ending Poverty Long Walk To Freedom World Poverty Global Poverty

Book:Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

“If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit”

Ifs Action Poor Poverty Focus Overcoming Credit

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so it destroys the gift of love in him or her. In loving, the husband and wife must turn the attention to each other as happens in natural family planning, and not to self, as happens in contraception. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows easily . . . And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.”

“When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.”