My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe that humans are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they did in the past because we turn our heads away from this issue.

The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.

Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

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