Michael Manley quotes

“Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.”
-- Michael Manley

Source : Michael Manley (1991). “The poverty of nations: reflections on underdevelopment and the world economy”, Pluto Pr

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“Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.”
-- Michael Manley

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“You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They are not trying to hurt you.”
-- Michael Manley

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“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”

“You don't need vision to be a visionary.”

“Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.”

“Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.”

Source : "'An incredible container for transformation'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. May 9, 2014.

“You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life.”

“MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.”