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"I'm not very sure that we have so far seen substantial enforcement against the so-called ‘big-fish’ in the markets."
"Being an environmental activist is a lifetime commitment, that requires resilience and a strong support system. Right Livelihood Award"
"Our goal is to challenge the state to enforce the Constitution and the private actors to respect their business and human rights responsibilities, but also to give a voice to those who are systematically not listened to."
"It's never a bad thing to fight for what is right."
"I am an Africanist; everything African is what I am, who I am."
"You won’t always have everything you need to get where you want to go, to attain your goals and your mission, so you need to start with the little that you do have or the privilege that you have."
"The thing I love most is connecting people, and my current mission is all about African youth."
"Youth unemployment is particularly important to me because it’s what I live with every day"
"The critical thing for me is learning how to leverage what you have"
"EABL faced an exceptionally challenging time related to macro-economic volatility and drought across East Africa, global inflation, and geo-political disruptions related to the Russia-Ukraine war."
"“My purpose in life is to grow people with energy and to inspire them to unleash their potential. I am very passionate about this as it gives great pleasure when I see them on their way to fulfil their dreams: for self, their organisations and the community at large"."
"Matia Kasaija appearing before Committee of Presidential Affairs to explain about the iron sheets saga in Uganda."
""Instead of using schools to apply and promote sexual education, why don't we go back to our traditional aunties (senga) and uncles (kojja)? Stop conveying the gospel of homosexuality to our children. You should stop and stop."'"
"“So members crucify me knowing I am totally innocent. I never asked for them; the iron sheets found me in my compound.”"
"“Give me [government] more taxes so that I don't have to borrow. Give me taxes … stop complaining when I increase taxes.”"
"“I am not proud to be a borrower and these days in Parliament they call me Minister of borrowing because every two weeks I am forced to go to cabinet to seek permission to borrow.”"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.