"The world’s most exciting, fastest-growing new markets? It’s where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the world’s billions of poor people have immense entrepreneurial capabilities and buying power. It’s being done – profitably. "
By C.K Prahalad
The Fortune At The Bottom of the Pyramid.

"What if we mobilize the resources, scale and scope of large firms to co-create solutions to the problems at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP), these 4 to 5 billion people who live on less than a $2 a day?"
By C.K Prahalad
The Fortune At The Bottom of the Pyramid.

"By virtue of their numbers, the poor represent a significant latent purchasing power that must be unlocked. The spread of wireless devices among the poor is proof of a market at the BOP."
By C.K Prahalad
The Fortune At The Bottom of the Pyramid

"Nairobi then had fewer than a million people, a sixth of its population today. There were no street children and no slums. Even Kibera, which is now the largest slum in Africa, had few inhabitants. Its land was still covered in trees and vegetation, although then, as now, there was little infrastructure. (Even today, Kibera’s half a million residents have limited access to electricity and running water.) Nairobi’s buses then were seldom overcrowded, garbage collection was regular, and the whole city was clean. My women friends and I would regularly stroll among the small shops and cafes in the city center without fear of being mugged or raped."
Unbowed
By Wangari Maathai

"The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it."
Unbowed
By Wangari Maathai

"As the Green Belt Movement developed, I became convinced that we needed to identify the roots of the disempowerment that plagued the Kenyan people. We had to understand why we were losing firewood; why there was malnutrition, scarcity of clean water, topsoil loss, and erratic rains; why people could not pay school fees, and why the infrastructure was falling apart. Why were we robbing ourselves of a future?"
Unbowed
By Wangari Maathai

"Fortunately, new leadership is emerging in Africa and, with it, new opportunities and commitments. Such leadership should be encouraged and challenged to stay on course."
Unbowed
By Wangari Maathai

"Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Only free men can negotiate."
By Nelson Mandela

"A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is not just.""
By Martin Luther King

"You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry...."
By Martin Luther King

"I'd see the bus pass every day… But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world. "
By Rosa Parks

"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in. "
By Rosa Parks

"It was just time... there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. "
By Rosa Parks

"As the first woman ever elected President in Africa, Johnson-Sirleaf is an example of what can happen when girls are educated. Educated women are better positioned to contribute to their economies and their countries. When women are equipped with knowledge, they can be better mothers."
Laura Bush
America’s first lady