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When governance improves, there will be less have-nots and more haves.

Kiran Bedi
1501 - 2000 AD
India
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I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll walk away.

Kiran Bedi
1501 - 2000 AD
India
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The focus is what is right before you - to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.

Kiran Bedi
1501 - 2000 AD
India
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The right to know is the right to live.

Aruna Roy
1501 - 2000 AD
India
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You can never evaluate anything standing from outside; you have to evaluate yourself first.

Aruna Roy
1501 - 2000 AD
India
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Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.

Aruna Roy
1501 - 2000 AD
India
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We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements that they use either to dig the earth or to shovel the earth. I can't carry the loads. That's extremely specialized. But they are called unskilled, and I am called skilled because I can write with the pen. I cannot accept this. I find it extremely non-egalitarian to say they are unskilled and I am skilled. It's only a way of looking at it. Knowledge is also like that.

Aruna Roy
1501 - 2000 AD
India
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The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations.

Aruna Roy
1501 - 2000 AD
India
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The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.

Aruna Roy
1501 - 2000 AD
India
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Development is, ultimately, the progress of human freedom and capability to lead the kind of lives that people have reason to value.

Jean Dreze
1501 - 2000 AD
India
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