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CHAPTER 8 EMPOWER THE POOR
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
Steven Weinberg’s much-quoted dictum: ‘With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil – that takes religion.’
Richard Dawkins • Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science
It is about courage, endurance and the capacity to hold fast to ideals even when they are ignored by others.
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonouring them.
Nelson Mandela • Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
nelson mandela: "thinking too well of people often allows them to behave better than they otherwise would"
Anyone at any time can participate in making Earth and humanity better by giving of themselves and their time.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
So, let us not be blind to our differences—but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small pl
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
It is an illusion to think that a person can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.