Ruth Manorama quotes

“I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.”
-- Ruth Manorama

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“An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.”
-- Ruth Manorama

Source : "Interview with Dr. Ruth Manorama". The Right Livelihood Award Interview, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. September 22, 2006.

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“Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.”

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

Source : Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.33

“A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.”

“Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.”

“No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.”

“When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.”

“There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-”

“I will always serve my country in any capacity, but I'm very happy with what I'm doing right now.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!”

“I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.”