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Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

Amartya Sen
Opportunity, Challenges, Inspire

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.

Amartya Sen
Opportunity, Example, Doe
"Interview: Amartya Sen on power to our citizens". Interview with Liam Byrne, liambyrne.co.uk. 2009.

Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human identity. And that's something that the schools can provide, but that requires again a vision rather than being centers of hatred. It could be an enormous opportunity to give that mission.

Amartya Sen
School, Opportunity, Giving
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Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.

Amartya Sen
Opportunity, Development, Systematic
Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.3, Anchor

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.

Amartya Sen
Opportunity, Water, People
Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.4, Anchor

Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the equality of capability, but the libertarians got there first and they have - like the Americans getting onto the moon, naming every crater after something like an astronaut - they have got there and named "opportunity" in a way that we cannot get ownership of now.

Amartya Sen
Moon, Opportunity, Libertarian
"Interview: Amartya Sen on power to our citizens". Interview with Liam Byrne, liambyrne.co.uk. 2009.

The opportunities, income, schools facilities, the basic income support that the government provides or any of these things .. public transport arrangements we have.. all these are part of the way our lives and freedoms are effected.

Amartya Sen
School, Opportunity, Government
"Interview: Amartya Sen on power to our citizens". Interview with Liam Byrne, liambyrne.co.uk. 2009.

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

Amartya Sen
Education, Ignorance, Opportunity
Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen, World Institute for Development Economics Research (1997). “Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives”, p.5, Oxford University Press

We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. It’s also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world.

Amartya Sen
Opportunity, Community, World

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
Real, Women, Opportunity

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.

Amartya Sen
Opportunity, Awards, India

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