Ela Bhatt quotes
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“It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.”
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“Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve most of the problems, personal as well as the world problems. If the life approach is simple one need not lie so frequently, nor quarrel nor steal, nor envy, anger, abuse, kill. Everyone will have enough and plenty so need not hoard, speculate, gamble, hate. When character is beautiful, you are beautiful. That is the beauty of simplicity.”
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“I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.”
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“Statistics in the hands of activists have power.”
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“Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best”
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“It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty”
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“Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.”
-- Ela Bhatt
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Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
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“It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.”
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“Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation.”
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“Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage”
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