Muhammad Yunus Quotes About Human Rights

Quotes about: Human Rights

• Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Frustration, Rights, Poverty

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.239, PublicAffairs

• Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Rights, Credit, Poverty

• We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Rights, People, Trying

• Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).

  Muhammad Yunus

  Issues, Rights, Development

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty”, p.109, PublicAffairs

• Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Rights, Order, Political

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.229, Hachette UK

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