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RI President Kalyan Banerjee asks Rotarians to Reach Within to Embrace Humanity during the 2011-12 Rotary year.
"In order to achieve anything in this world, a person has to use all the resources he can draw on. And the only place to start is with ourselves and within ourselves."
"Discover yourself, develop the strengths within you, and then unhesitatingly, unflinchingly, go forth and encircle the world, to embrace humanity."
"The communities we live in are not built of individual people but of families -- families living in homes together, sharing their lives and their resources and their common destinies. Good families lead to good neighborhoods, and good neighborhoods build good communities."
“There are so many things we are indeed good at: working for clean, safe water; spreading literacy; working in so many ways with the New Generations, our youth, in our newest Avenue of Service and assisting them to become the leaders of tomorrow."
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." Banerjee said Rotarians should also focus on change.”
"If we wish for peace, we start by living in peace ourselves, in our homes and in our communities." "If we wish environmental degradation to stop, if we wish to reduce child mortality or to prevent hunger, we must be the instrument of that change -- and recognize that it must start within us, with each of us.”
Kalyan Banerjee
RI President 2011-12
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