Bunker Roy Quotes

• 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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  Self Confidence, Opportunity, People

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• Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world.

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  People, World, Solutions

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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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  Teacher, Motivation, Inspiration

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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.

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  Jobs, Six Months, Village

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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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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  Television, World, Today

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• I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, India

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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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  Motivation, Husband, Inspiration

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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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  Morning, Motivation, Inspiration

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