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Poverty as Lady Death for even as a youth, he ran to war against his father, on behalf of her- the lady unto whom, just as to death, none willingly unlocks the door; before his spiritual court et coram patre, he wed her; day by day he loved her more. She was bereft of her first husband; scorned, obscure, for some eleven hundred years, until that sun came, she had […]
Read moreTo do good, signifies to do that which is good for man. But, in order to know what is good for man, it is necessary to be on humane, i.e., on friendly terms with him. It is not money that is necessary, but, first of all, a capacity for detaching ourselves, for a time at least, from the conditions of our own life. It is necessary that we should not […]
Read moreBecause poverty denies people any semblance of control over their destiny, it is the ultimate denial of human rights. Forty-two People, Twenty-Seven Dollars Muhammad Yunus was not a banker, but an economics professor, who felt the emptiness of the economics theories and “wanted to do something immediate to help” the poor. He talked to many poor people and found out, to his shocking surprise, that they needed just a little […]
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