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I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

Amartya Sen

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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
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It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
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No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
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Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And that's what gives it ultimately urgency too, because unless you do it now, this important thing gets again and again postponed.
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It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don’t really expect any credit for going in that direction. It’s the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people don’t see that as so patently obvious as it should be?
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Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
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Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.
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The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when a Princeton mathematician does an algorithm, he may not remember that algorithm derived from the name al-Khwarizmi, who is a ninth-century Arab mathematician.
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From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
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It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.
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Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.
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Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.
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China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.
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