Once poverty is gone, we’ll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They’ll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society – how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.
I thought, if you can become an angel for 27 dollars. It would be fun to do more of it.
We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions – like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.
Human beings have enormous resilience.
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.
Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.
All people are entrepreneurs, but many don’t have the opportunity to find that out.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
In the future the question will not be, “Are people credit-worthy”, but rather, “Are banks people-worthy?”
Poverty is unnecessary.
I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.
Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.