Bunker Roy quotes
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“Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.”
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“[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.”
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“I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.”
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“We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought for a minute and said, 'It's the first time I can see my husband's face in winter.'”
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“The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.”
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“What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.”
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“Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village”
-- Bunker RoySource : "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.
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“Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world.”
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