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“We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social plane we have an India based on the principles of graded inequality, which means elevation for some and degradation for others. On the economic plane we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.”

Mean Two Social Wealth Principles Poverty Economic India Absence Inequality Indian Planes Two Things Immense Degradation Elevation

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.”

Source: Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings

“There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty is the absence of wealth. We should ask, ‘what are the causes of wealth?’”

Should Asks Energy Causes Wealth Poverty Asking Absence Causes Of Poverty

Author:Madsen Pirie

“poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.”

Causes Process Results Poverty Economic Cold Development Prosperity Active Absence Heat Stagnation Economic Development

Book:The Economy of Cities

Source: The Economy of Cities

“Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.”

Humans War Opportunity Human Beings Common Enemy Poverty Ignorance Depends Disease Creating Weapons Absence Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Worth Living Life Worth Living True Peace Common Enemy

Author:Barack Obama

“The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur's efforts.”

Has Beens Facts Causes Effort Poverty Successful Consequence Entrepreneur Riches Absence Consumers Successful Entrepreneurs

Book:Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.”

Humans Poverty Rights Human Rights Absence Frustration Hostility

Book:Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

Source: Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism