Heroes for a Better World

Muhammad Yunus
(1940-)

Bangladeshi Economist, Founder Grammen Bank
1996 International Simón Bolívar Prize
1998 Sydney Peace Prize Winner
2000 Gandhi Peace Prize
2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Ashoka Fellow | The Elders

birthdate: June 28
birthplace:
Chittagong, Bangladesh

QUOTES

Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger, the real cause in most of the incidents of hunger is lack of ability to pay for food. If we are looking for ways to end hunger then we should be looking at ways to ensure a reasonable level of income for all

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.

Poverty is unnecessary.

My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take loans and implement his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes possible. And second: that it will lead to a world where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world completely free from poverty.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.

If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.

 


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