QUOTES
It
is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty
can never be removed.
I
relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.
At
whatever level we are at we are changing the balance of power in favor of the
poor and women. One step is enough. Step by step.
From
a miserable passive acceptance of all the injustices, SEWA women, by organising
themselves, have attained the courage to stand up and fight, the ability to think,
act, react, manage and lead. Self-reliance is what they ultimately want. There
is no development without self-reliance. But there is no route to self-reliance
except by organisation.
Women
are indeed great, as I learn that they are better fighters against poverty than
their men, have more calculative, stable, forward looking strategies to deal with
their own environment. Everywhere in the country, we found that women were the
most committed proponents of our future.
