Empowerment and Problem Solving in Society

When I go to these countries in the region, with three or four hundred thousand people, or two or three million people, they have a leader, an emir, who knows what else.

They have all this sort of rigmarole. We, with a population of forty—ninety million, I mean, I can think for myself, and each of you could be the emir, or, I don't know, the treasury minister.

For us to solve our problem, we have to grovel to them and say, “Sir, solve our problem for us.”

Why can't we come to believe ourselves that we're no less than they are?

None of you is any less than any of the others— Who even says that he's an emir, and you and I aren't emirs?

So if we set this belief straight, then we'll find a way, too, to solve our problem— Each province can solve its own problem.