Aruna Roy
The right to know is the right to live.Collection: Knows
You can never evaluate anything standing from outside; you have to evaluate yourself first.Collection: Inner Peace
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.Collection: Writing
Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.Collection: Taken
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.Collection: Strength
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.Collection: Organization
The OGP is something that has brought the world community together.Collection: Community