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I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].
Amartya Sen
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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own
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[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.
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One has to bring the multidimensional impact that schooling makes in the lives of people. There's nothing like it, and I think the importance of it has to be shaken into people's understanding and determination.
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I'm generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesnt always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.
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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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I dont think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.
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I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.
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Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.
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No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
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[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.
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Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.
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Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.
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In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in any kind of system, to say that the priorities don't include education is a mistake, whether it's [at the] domestic level or at the global level.
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Its very easy to capture pictures of jubilant people in the street after the nuclear bomb. But there were no pictures of morose people sitting in their kitchens and living rooms.
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Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty
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The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.
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Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.
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But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world.
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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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But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
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