(Submitted by The Office of Muhammad Yunus)
We get what we want, or what we don’t refuse. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us, and that poverty is part of human destiny. This is precisely why we continue to have poor people around us. If we firmly believed that poverty was unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have built appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.
We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.
Amin Maalouf, Lebanon
