Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. When schoolchildren go with their teachers and tour the poverty museums, they will be horrified to see the misery and indignity of human beings. They will blame their forefathers for tolerating this inhuman condition and for allowing it to continue in such a large segment of the population until the early part of the twenty-first century.


Muhammad Yunus. Former head of Economics at Chittagong University. Founder and managing director of the Grameen bank, a micro-credit pioneer. Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. 1999. Public Affairs, New York. P.236